Where does “moderator” come from?

Moderator comes from Latin moderator, agent noun of moderor meaning to regulate or control, derived from Latin modus meaning measure or mode, from Proto-Indo-European med- meaning to measure.

moderator (English): someone who moderates; the person who presides...

Definitions

  1. someone who moderates; the person who presides...

Ancestry of “moderator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmoderātormanager, ruler, governor, director
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “moderator”

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