Where does “-ae” come from?

-ae (Translingual) comes from Latin -ae, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

-ae (Translingual): Used to form adjectives for the species descriptor of a scientific name

Definitions

  1. Used to form adjectives for the species descriptor of a scientific name

Ancestry of “-ae”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-aenominative feminine plural of -us; genitive...
2Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
3Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
4Proto-Italic-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “-ae”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -ae →