Where does “unison” come from?

unison (Romanian) comes from French unisson, from Latin unisonus, from Latin -sonus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

unison (Romanian): unison

Definitions

  1. unison

Ancestry of “unison”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchunissonunison
2LatinunisonusHaving a single sound
3Latin-sonus—
4Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
5Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
6Proto-Italic-os—
7Proto-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 -sonus →