Where does “factorialize” come from?

factorialize (English) comes from English factorial, from English factor, from Middle French facteur, from Latin factor, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

factorialize (English): To perform factor analysis on (a set of data)

Definitions

  1. To perform factor analysis on (a set of data)

Ancestry of “factorialize”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfactorialThe result of multiplying a given number of...
2EnglishfactorA doer, maker; a person who does things for...
3Middle Frenchfacteur
4LatinfactorOne who or which does or makes something; doer,...
5Latinfaciōto do
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōriusory
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s