Where does “annihilator” come from?
annihilator (English) comes from English annihilate, from Latin annihilatus, from Latin annihilō, from Latin nihil, from Latin nihilum, from Latin nē, from Latin gēns, from Proto-Italic *gentis — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
annihilator (English): One who annihilates
Definitions
- One who annihilates
Ancestry of “annihilator”, step by step
annihilator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English annihilate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | annihilate | To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate;... |
| 2 | Latin | annihilatus | destroyed; annihilated |
| 3 | Latin | annihilō | to bring to nothing, annihilate, obliterate, destroy utterly, benothing |
| 4 | Latin | nihil | indefinite nothing |
| 5 | Latin | nihilum | nothing; no value |
| 6 | Latin | nē | no; not |
| 7 | Latin | gēns | Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites) |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *gentis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁tis | birth, production |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
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 | — |