-eau

French

suffix

Definitions

forming diminutive masculine nouns, especially with the sense "young animal"

Etymology

Inherited from Latin -ellus.

Origin

Latin

-ellus

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

-ellus Latin
femina Latin
liber Latin
oculus Latin
porculus Latin
-ello Italian
-el Old French
-el Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
-el Middle French
-et Middle French
-elo Old Portuguese
-iello Old Spanish