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Where does “cataplasma” come from?

cataplasma (Spanish) comes from Latin cataplasma, from Ancient Greek κατάπλασμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

cataplasma (Spanish): poultice, cataplasm

Definitions

  1. poultice, cataplasm

Ancestry of “cataplasma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincataplasmapoultice, plaster; second-person singular present...
2Ancient Greekκατάπλασμα—
3Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
4Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs
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