Where does “fader” come from?
Fader comes from English fade plus the agent suffix -er, ultimately deriving from Latin -ārius, an agentive suffix formed from -āre verbs, which traces to Proto-Indo-European póyḱos.
fader (English): A device used to control sound volume; A program...
Definitions
- A device used to control sound volume; A program...
Ancestry of “fader”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fade | Weak; insipid; tasteless |
| 2 | Middle English | fade | — |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | vade | weak, faint, limp |
| 4 | Old French | fade | weak, witless |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | fatidus | — |
| 6 | Latin | fatuus | foolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,... |
| 7 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 8 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |