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Where does “locutor” come from?

locutor (English) comes from Latin locutor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

locutor (English): A speaker

Definitions

  1. A speaker

Ancestry of “locutor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlocutorspeaker, talker
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōr—
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →