Where does “-ito” come from?

-ito (Spanish) comes from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

-ito (Spanish): Forms diminutives of nouns; Forms names of...

Definitions

  1. Forms diminutives of nouns; Forms names of...

Ancestry of “-ito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
2Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
3Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “-ito

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós