Where does “Latimer” come from?
Latimer comes from Latin latinarius, meaning a person who uses Latin, via Vulgar Latin latimarus.
Ancestry of “Latimer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vulgar Latin | latimarus | translator, interpreter |
| 2 | Latin | latinarius | interpreter; Latinophone |
| 3 | Latin | Latīnus | — |
| 4 | Latin | -īnus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -īnos | of/belonging to |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -no- | adjectival suffix |