Where does “tentativo” come from?
tentativo (Portuguese) comes from Latin tentativus, from Latin -īvus, from Proto-Indo-European -iHwós, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.
tentativo (Portuguese): tentative
Ancestry of “tentativo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | tentativus | trying, testing |
| 2 | Latin | -īvus | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHwós | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |
Words derived from “tentativo”