Where does “ptolemeic” come from?

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

ptolemeic (Romanian): Ptolemaic

Definitions

  1. Ptolemaic

Ancestry of “ptolemeic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1RomanianPtolemeuPtolemy
2LatinPtolemaeusPtolemy
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 Latin Ptolemaeus →