Where does “ourives” come from?
ourives (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese ourivez, from Latin aurifex, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus.
ourives (Portuguese): goldsmith
Ancestry of “ourives”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | ourivez | goldsmith |
| 2 | Latin | aurifex | A worker in gold, goldsmith |
| 3 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 4 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 6 | Latin | audeō | — |
| 7 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 8 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |
Words derived from “ourives”