Where does “65-plusser” come from?

65-plusser (Dutch) comes from Dutch -er, from Old Dutch -āri, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

65-plusser (Dutch): a person who is 65 years old or older, 65 having traditionally been the official retirement age in Belgium and the Netherlands

Definitions

  1. a person who is 65 years old or older, 65 having traditionally been the official retirement age in Belgium and the Netherlands

Ancestry of “65-plusser”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutch-erForms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a...
2Old Dutch-āri—
3Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Dutch -er →