Where does “radios” come from?
radios (Romanian) comes from French radieux, from Latin radiosus, from Latin radio, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
radios (Romanian): radiant
Definitions
- radiant
Ancestry of “radios”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | radieux | radiant |
| 2 | Latin | radiosus | radiant |
| 3 | Latin | radio | I cause to radiate, irradiate; I radiate, emit... |
| 4 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |