Where does “discreditor” come from?
discreditor (English) comes from English discredit, from French discrédit, from French discréditer, from French crédit, from Italian credito, from Latin crēditum, from Latin crēdō, from Proto-Italic krezdō — to do, put, place.
discreditor (English): One who discredits
Definitions
- One who discredits
Ancestry of “discreditor”, step by step
discreditor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English discredit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | discredit | To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause... |
| 2 | French | discrédit | disrepute |
| 3 | French | discréditer | to discredit |
| 4 | French | crédit | credit; course credit |
| 5 | Italian | credito | credit |
| 6 | Latin | crēditum | a loan |
| 7 | Latin | crēdō | to believe, to trust in, to give credence to |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | krezdō | to believe |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱréddʰh₁eti | to believe, trust |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰh₁eti | Forms resultative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |
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 | — |