Where does “sponsor” come from?

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

sponsor (Dutch): sponsor

Definitions

  1. sponsor

Ancestry of “sponsor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsponsorA person or organisation with some sort of...
2Latinsponsora bondsman, surety
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin sponsor →