Proto-Italic
*rowos
‘country, countryside, open land’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *rowos.
5 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *rowos, most familiar first.
- rural ← rūrālis ← rūs
- rustic ← rūsticus ← *rowos
- rusticity ← rusticitas ← rūsticus ← *rowos
- rusticate ← rūsticātus ← rūsticor ← rūsticus ← *rowos
- rusticatio ← rūsticor ← rūsticus ← *rowestikos ← *rowos
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Etymograph / Proto-Italic *rowos