Where does “minatory” come from?

minatory (English) comes from Middle French minatoire, from Latin minatorius, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

minatory (English): Threatening, menacing

Definitions

  1. Threatening, menacing

Ancestry of “minatory”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchminatoire—
2Latinminatoriusthreatening
3Latin-tōriusory
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “minatory”

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