Where does “-ote” come from?

-ote (Spanish) comes from Catalan -ot, from Latin -ottus — a kind of.

-ote (Spanish): emphasizes size; emphasizes contempt for subject

Definitions

  1. emphasizes size; emphasizes contempt for subject

Ancestry of “-ote”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalan-otA suffix to form augmentatives; A suffix used to...
2Latin-ottusa kind of

Words derived from “-ote”

Every word from Latin -ottus →