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Where does “hormiguero” come from?

hormiguero (Spanish) comes from Latin formīcārium, from Latin formīca, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

hormiguero (Spanish): anthill; ant colony; place with lots of people

Definitions

  1. anthill; ant colony; place with lots of people

Ancestry of “hormiguero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinformīcārium—
2Latinformīca—
3Latin-ārium—
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
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