Where does “ondulos” come from?
ondulos (Romanian) comes from French onduleux, from French onduler, from French ondulation, from Latin undula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
ondulos (Romanian): billowy
Definitions
- billowy
Ancestry of “ondulos”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | onduleux | undulating, sinuous; billowing |
| 2 | French | onduler | to wave |
| 3 | French | ondulation | undulation |
| 4 | Latin | undula | wavelet; vocative singular of undula; ablative... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |