Where does “bitumen” come from?

bitumen (Spanish) comes from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bitumen (Spanish): bitumen

Definitions

  1. bitumen

Ancestry of “bitumen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →