Where does “formateur” come from?
formateur (Dutch) comes from French formateur, from Latin formator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
formateur (Dutch): trainer; chief political negotiator for formal...
Definitions
- trainer; chief political negotiator for formal...
Ancestry of “formateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | formateur | shaping; trainer, former |
| 2 | Latin | formator | second-person singular future passive imperative... |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |