Where does “adăpostitor” come from?

adăpostitor (Romanian) comes from Romanian adăposti, from Romanian -î, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

adăpostitor (Romanian): sheltering

Definitions

  1. sheltering

Ancestry of “adăpostitor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianadăpostito shelter
2Romanian-îA suffix forming infinitives of many verbs
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Romanian -î →