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Where does “cruci” come from?

cruci (Romanian) comes 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...

cruci (Romanian): plural of cruce; to cross oneself, make the sign...

Definitions

  1. plural of cruce; to cross oneself, make the sign...

Ancestry of “cruci”, step by step

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