Where does “conquestor” come from?
conquestor (English) comes from English conquest, from Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste, from Vulgar Latin conquista, from Latin conquisitus, from Latin conquirō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — resin, gum; to say, speak.
conquestor (English): Someone who breaks into the conductor car in a subway and takes control of the train, as a hobby or prank
Definitions
- Someone who breaks into the conductor car in a subway and takes control of the train, as a hobby or prank
Ancestry of “conquestor”, step by step
conquestor traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English conquest
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | conquest | Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of... |
| 2 | Middle English | conquest | A conquest or invasion; a forcible takeover; The... |
| 3 | Old French | conqueste | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | conquista | — |
| 5 | Latin | conquisitus | select, chosen; costly |
| 6 | Latin | conquirō | to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English ‐or
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ‐or | Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed |
| 2 | Middle English | -our | — |
| 3 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 4 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Middle French conquesteur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | conquesteur | — |