Interestingly, all of the Romance languages exhibited consonant-dropping in their development. In Spanish and Italian for example, the Latin ending -us became -

Interestingly, all of the Romance languages exhibited consonant-dropping in their development. In Spanish and Italian for example, the Latin ending -us became -o. And even as far back as classical Latin, it is believed that the "m" at the end of a word was often nasalized. Apparently this hasn't been a thing for millennia.