Where does “agitator” come from?
agitator (English) comes from English agitate, from Latin agitatus, from Latin agitō, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
agitator (English): One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites...
Definitions
- One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites...
Ancestry of “agitator”, step by step
agitator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English agitate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | agitate | To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up; To... |
| 2 | Latin | agitatus | driven, impelled; brandished, wielded; agitated,... |
| 3 | Latin | agitō | to act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly |
| 4 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 5 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb 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 | — |