Where does “avenger” come from?
Avenger comes from English avenge plus the suffix -er, ultimately deriving from Latin ad- (toward) and -āre (verb-forming suffix), with the agent noun formation paralleling Latin -īvus.
avenger (English): One who avenges or vindicates; One who takes...
Definitions
- One who avenges or vindicates; One who takes...
Ancestry of “avenger”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | avenge | To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer |
| 2 | Middle English | avengen | — |
| 3 | Old French | avengier | to avenge |
| 4 | Old French | vengier | to avenge, to take revenge |
| 5 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 6 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 7 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |