Where does “Pacífico” come from?
Pacífico (Spanish) comes from Portuguese pacífico, from Latin pācificus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
Pacífico (Spanish): the Pacific
Definitions
- the Pacific
Ancestry of “Pacífico”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | pacífico | peaceful; pacific; calm; peaceful |
| 2 | Latin | pācificus | peacemaking, pacific, peaceable |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |