Where does “vasectomie” come from?

vasectomie (Romanian) comes from Italian vasectomia, from Italian vaso, from Latin vāsum, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

vasectomie (Romanian): vasectomy

Definitions

  1. vasectomy

Ancestry of “vasectomie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianvasectomiavasectomy
2Italianvasojar, pot; vase
3Latinvāsumdish, vessel
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →