Where does “advertiser” come from?
Advertiser derives from English advertise, from Middle French advertir, from Old French -er verbal suffix, from Latin -are verbal ending, prefixed with Latin ad- (toward), from Latin ab (away), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wer- (to turn).
advertiser (English): One who advertises; A periodical in which...
Definitions
- One who advertises; A periodical in which...
Ancestry of “advertiser”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | advertise | To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly |
| 2 | Middle English | advertisen | To pay attention |
| 3 | Middle French | advertir | to warn |
| 4 | Old French | avertir | to inform; to notify; to notice; to remark |
| 5 | Latin | advertō | to turn to or towards |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |