Where does “depressor” come from?
Depressor comes from English depress, from Latin depressus, the past participle of Latin deprimo, meaning to press down, from Latin de and a root related to Proto-Indo-European per-.
depressor (English): Anything that depresses; An instrument used to...
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- Anything that depresses; An instrument used to...
Ancestry of “depressor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | depress | To press down; To make depressed, sad or bored;... |
| 2 | Middle English | depressen | — |
| 3 | Old French | depresser | — |
| 4 | Latin | dēpressus | — |
| 5 | Latin | dēprimō | — |
| 6 | Latin | dē- | — |
| 7 | Latin | dē | — |
| 8 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 9 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | posti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
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