Where does “assessor” come from?
Assessor comes from Old French assessour, a person who sits beside another, from the Latin root meaning "to sit by."
assessor (English): One who assesses a property for tax or insurance...
Definitions
- One who assesses a property for tax or insurance...
Ancestry of “assessor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | assessour | — |
| 2 | Latin | assessor | aide |
| 3 | Latin | assideō | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “assessor”