Where does “auditor” come from?

Auditor comes from Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin auditor, meaning one who listens, derived from Latin audio, to hear, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-, to put or place.

auditor (English): One who audits bookkeeping accounts; In many...

Definitions

  1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts; In many...

Ancestry of “auditor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanauditour
2Latinauditora hearer; an auditor; a pupil, disciple; a person...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

Words derived from “auditor

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s