Where does “elector” come from?
elector (Catalan) comes from Latin elector, from Latin ēligō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
elector (Catalan): voter, elector
Ancestry of “elector”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | elector | chooser, selector; voter, elector |
| 2 | Latin | ēligō | — |
| 3 | Latin | legō | — |
| 4 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “elector”