Where does “fixator” come from?

fixator (English) comes from French fixateur, from French -ateur, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

fixator (English): Any muscle that fixes, or limits the movement, of...

Definitions

Any muscle that fixes, or limits the movement, of...

Ancestry of “fixator”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	fixateur	fixer; fixative
2	French	-ateur	-ator
3	Latin	-ator	-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
4	Latin	-tor	-er
5	Proto-Italic	-tōr	Forms agent nouns to verb stems
6	Proto-Indo-European	-tōr	Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7	Proto-Indo-European	-tor-s	—

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →