Where does “Ecuador” come from?

Ecuador comes from Spanish ecuador, from Medieval Latin aequator, from Latin aequus meaning "equal," with the agent noun suffix -tor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.

Ancestry of “Ecuador”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishecuadorequator
2Medieval Latinaequatorequalizer; equator; second-person singular future...
3Latinaequōto equalize, make equal to something else, equate
4Latinæquusequal
5Latinvocāre
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwekʷ-to speak, to sound out

Words derived from “Ecuador

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ-
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