Where does “ejaculator” come from?
ejaculator (English) comes from English ejaculate, from Latin ēiaculātus, from Latin ēiaculor, from Latin iaculor, from Latin iaculum, from Latin iaculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
ejaculator (English): A person or thing that ejaculates; A device that...
Definitions
- A person or thing that ejaculates; A device that...
Ancestry of “ejaculator”, step by step
ejaculator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ejaculate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ejaculate | To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and... |
| 2 | Latin | ēiaculātus | hurling, shooting out, having hurled out, shooted out |
| 3 | Latin | ēiaculor | to shoot out; throw out; hurl with force |
| 4 | Latin | iaculor | I throw or hurl; I throw or fight with a javelin |
| 5 | Latin | iaculum | A dart, a javelin; A casting net, the weapon of a... |
| 6 | Latin | iaculus | that is thrown; a serpent that darts from a tree... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
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 | — |