Where does “moderator” come from?

moderator (Dutch) comes from Latin moderātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Ancestry of “moderator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmoderātormanager, ruler, governor, director
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 “moderator”

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