Where does “mendigo” come from?
mendigo (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish mendigo, from Latin mendicus, from Latin -icus, from Ancient Greek -ικός, from Ancient Greek -κός, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.
mendigo (Spanish): beggar
Ancestry of “mendigo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Spanish | mendigo | — |
| 2 | Latin | mendicus | beggarly, needy, indigent |
| 3 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |
Words derived from “mendigo”