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Where does “cerbatanero” come from?

cerbatanero (Spanish) comes from Spanish -ero, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

cerbatanero (Spanish): one who uses a blowgun or blowpipe

Definitions

  1. one who uses a blowgun or blowpipe

Ancestry of “cerbatanero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanish-eroforms occupations and other agent nouns from...
2Latin-ārium—
3Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
4Proto-Italic*-om—
5Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →