Where does “velório” come from?

velório (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese velar, from Latin vēlō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

velório (Portuguese): wake

Definitions

  1. wake

Ancestry of “velório”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesevelarvelar; to veil; to veil; to conceal; to hide
2Latinvēlōto cover, wrap, veil
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin vēlō →