Where does “conquistador” come from?
Conquistador comes from Spanish conquistador, formed with the agent suffix -dor (from Latin -tor), derived from Latin conquisito, the past participle of conquiro meaning "to search out or conquer," combining con- "with" and quiro "to seek."
conquistador (English): A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish...
Definitions
- A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish...
Ancestry of “conquistador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | conquistador | conquering; winning; conqueror, conquistador;... |
| 2 | Spanish | conquistar | to conquer; to enamor, romantically convince; to... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | conquisitare | — |
| 4 | Latin | conquisitus | select, chosen; costly |
| 5 | Latin | conquirō | to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |