Where does “facilitator” come from?
Facilitator comes from French facilitateur, from Latin facilis meaning "easy," derived from facio meaning "to do or make," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-.
facilitator (English): A person who helps a group to have an effective...
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- A person who helps a group to have an effective...
Ancestry of “facilitator”, step by step
facilitator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English facilitate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | facilitate | To make easy or easier; To help bring about; To... |
| 2 | French | faciliter | facilitate |
| 3 | Middle French | faciliter | — |
| 4 | Italian | facilitare | to facilitate; to ease, help |
| 5 | Italian | facile | easy; cosy; effortless |
| 6 | Spanish | fácil | easy, facile, simple; easy-to-use, user-friendly;... |
| 7 | Portuguese | fácil | easy |
| 8 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
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 | -or | -er, suffix used to form agent nouns; -ness,... |
| 4 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |