Where does “caterer” come from?
Caterer comes from English cater, from French quatre, from Old French -er, from Latin -are, from ad-, from ab-.
caterer (English): A person employed to obtain and maintain the...
Definitions
- A person employed to obtain and maintain the...
Ancestry of “caterer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cater | To provide, "particularly:"; Synonym of acater:... |
| 2 | Middle English | catour | acater, provisioner |
| 3 | Middle English | acatour | acater |
| 4 | Old French | acheter | to purchase; buy |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | accaptare | — |
| 6 | Latin | acceptō | to take, receive, accept (regularly) |
| 7 | Latin | accipiō | to receive, accept, take |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |