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Where does “tentativo” come from?

tentativo (Spanish) comes from Latin tentativus, from Latin -īvus, from Proto-Indo-European -iHwós, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.

tentativo (Spanish): tentative

Definitions

  1. tentative

Ancestry of “tentativo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintentativustrying, testing
2Latin-īvus—
3Proto-Indo-European-iHwós—
4Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wós →