Etymology

-gerous

Today it means: Bearing or producing. Full definition →

Latin gerō
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromgerō“to carry”
  2. English today-gerous

From Latin gerō (“to carry”) + English -ous.

Words from the same roots

Latingerō all →

gesture

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.