Where does “tinnitus” come from?

tinnitus (Portuguese) comes from Latin tinnitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

tinnitus (Portuguese): tinnitus

Definitions

  1. tinnitus

Ancestry of “tinnitus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintinnitusrung, jingled, having been jingled; cried,...
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tinnitus →