Where does “vector” come from?

vector (Catalan) comes from Latin vector, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

vector (Catalan): vector

Definitions

  1. vector

Ancestry of “vector”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvectorbearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “vector”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →