Where does “adulador” come from?
adulador (Catalan) comes from Latin adūlātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
adulador (Catalan): flatterer one who flatters
Definitions
- flatterer one who flatters
Ancestry of “adulador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | adūlātor | a low cringing flatterer; a sycophant |
| 2 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |