Where does “discriminator” come from?
Discriminator comes from English discriminate, from Latin discriminatus (past participle of discriminare, meaning "to divide or distinguish"), from Latin dis- ("apart") and a root from Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ ("two").
discriminator (English): A person who discriminates or differentiates; A...
Definitions
- A person who discriminates or differentiates; A...
Ancestry of “discriminator”, step by step
discriminator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English discriminate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | discriminate | To make distinctions; To make decisions based on... |
| 2 | Latin | discriminatus | 1. determined |
| 3 | Latin | discrīminō | to distinguish (between) |
| 4 | Latin | discrīmen | distinction, difference, discrimination |
| 5 | Latin | discernō | to separate, set apart, divide, part |
| 6 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 7 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 8 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
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 | — |