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Where does “vuestro” come from?

vuestro (Spanish) comes from Latin vostrum, from Latin vester, from Proto-Italic westeros, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

vuestro (Spanish): Yours; Yours, your, to you

Definitions

  1. Yours; Yours, your, to you

Ancestry of “vuestro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinvostrumAlternative spelling of vestrum; nominative...
2Latinvesteryour, yours, of you
3Proto-Italicwesterosyour
4Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

Words derived from “vuestro”

  • ustedes
  • Ud.
  • Vd.
  • vuestra merced
  • vuestra
  • usted
  • vuesa
  • vuesa merced
  • vueso
  • vusted
  • usencia
  • utere
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