Where does “escriptor” come from?
escriptor (Catalan) comes from Latin scriptor, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
escriptor (Catalan): writer
Definitions
- writer
Ancestry of “escriptor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | scriptor | writer, author; scribe |
| 2 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 3 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |