Where does “pasto” come from?

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

pasto (Spanish): pasture; lawn; grass

Definitions

  1. pasture; lawn; grass

Ancestry of “pasto”, step by step

pasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin pāstus

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

via English Pashto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPashtoThe native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun...
2PashtoپښتوPashto language

Words derived from “pasto”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin pāstus →
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