Where does “-ame” come from?

-ame (Romanian) comes from Latin -amen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

-ame (Romanian): used to form collective nouns with some words

Definitions

  1. used to form collective nouns with some words

Ancestry of “-ame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-amen—
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “-ame”

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