Where does “crusher” come from?
Crusher comes from English crush plus the agent suffix -er, ultimately from Latin -arius, a suffix forming agent nouns from verbs ending in -are.
crusher (English): Someone or something that crushes; A machine...
Definitions
- Someone or something that crushes; A machine...
Ancestry of “crusher”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | crush | A violent collision or compression; a crash;... |
| 2 | Middle English | cruschen | to crush, smash, squeeze, squash |
| 3 | Old French | croissir | to crush; to break; to crack; to snap; to crack;... |
| 4 | Late Latin | cruscio | to brush |
| 5 | Frankish | krostjan | to crush, squeeze, squash |
Words derived from “crusher”