Where does “peixe-palhaço” come from?
peixe-palhaço (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese palhaço, from Portuguese -aço, from Old Portuguese -aço, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
peixe-palhaço (Portuguese): clownfish any of several colourful sea fishes that live among sea anemones
Definitions
- clownfish any of several colourful sea fishes that live among sea anemones
Ancestry of “peixe-palhaço”, step by step
peixe-palhaço traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese palhaço
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | palhaço | clown; any funny or amusing person; a silly or... |
| 2 | Portuguese | -aço | Forming augmentatives; words expressing greatness... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -aço | — |
| 4 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 5 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |