Where does “-us” come from?

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

-us (Translingual): Used to form taxonomic names

Definitions

  1. Used to form taxonomic names

Ancestry of “-us”, step by step

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

Words derived from “-us”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Old Latin -os →