Where does “aquifer” come from?
Aquifer comes from Latin aqua, water, derived from Proto-Indo-European h₂ekʷeh₂, meaning water or flowing water.
aquifer (English): An underground layer of water-bearing porous...
Definitions
- An underground layer of water-bearing porous...
Ancestry of “aquifer”, step by step
aquifer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan fer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | fer | to make, produce; to make up; to do, to cause to... |
| 2 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 3 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 4 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 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 | — |