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
- One who audits bookkeeping accounts; In many...
Ancestry of “auditor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Anglo-Norman | auditour | — |
| 2 | Latin | auditor | a hearer; an auditor; a pupil, disciple; a person... |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “auditor”