Where does “admordium” come from?

admordium (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin admordere, from Latin admordeo, from Latin mordeō, from Proto-Italic mordeō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)merd- — to bite, to sting.

admordium (Vulgar Latin): breakfast

Definitions

  1. breakfast

Ancestry of “admordium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadmorderepresent active infinitive of admordeō;...
2LatinadmordeoI bite or gnaw at or into; I get possession of...
3Latinmordeōto bite (into); nibble, gnaw
4Proto-Italicmordeōto bite
5Proto-Indo-European(s)merd-to bite, to sting

Words derived from “admordium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)merd- →Every word from Proto-Italic mordeō →Every word from Latin mordeō →