Where does “accentuator” come from?
accentuator (English) comes from English accentuate, from Medieval Latin accentuatus, from Latin accentuare, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accentuator (English): An agent that accentuates
Definitions
- An agent that accentuates
Ancestry of “accentuator”, step by step
accentuator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accentuate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accentuate | To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress; To... |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | accentuatus | — |
| 3 | Latin | accentuare | — |
| 4 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 5 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 6 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 8 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via English ‐or
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ‐or | Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed |
| 2 | Middle English | -our | — |
| 3 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 4 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |