Where does “scabios” come from?

scabios (Romanian) comes from French scabieux, from Latin scabiosus, from Latin scabiēs, from Latin -ies, from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s.

scabios (Romanian): scabious

Definitions

  1. scabious

Ancestry of “scabios”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchscabieuxscabious, mangy
2Latinscabiosusscabby, scurfy, mangy
3Latinscabiēsroughness, scurf
4Latin-iesUsed to form an abstract noun, usually from an...
5Proto-Indo-European-yḗh₂s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s →Every word from Latin -ies →Every word from Latin scabiēs →