Where does “hálito” come from?

hálito (Spanish) comes from Latin hālitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

hálito (Spanish): breath (from the mouth)

Definitions

  1. breath (from the mouth)

Ancestry of “hálito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinhālitusbreath, exhalation
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin hālitus →