Where does “grandíloquo” come from?

grandíloquo (Portuguese) comes from Latin grandiloquus, from Latin -loquus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

grandíloquo (Portuguese): grandiloquent

Definitions

  1. grandiloquent

Ancestry of “grandíloquo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latingrandiloquusgrandiloquent; boastful
2Latin-loquus—
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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