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Where does “lactar” come from?

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

lactar (Spanish): to breast-feed

Definitions

  1. to breast-feed

Ancestry of “lactar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlactō—
2Latin-tō—
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “lactar”

  • lactancia
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →