Where does “mortgagor” come from?
Mortgagor comes from English mortgage, which derives from Old French mortgage, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mer- meaning to die, via Latin -arius and -are.
mortgagor (English): Alternative spelling of mortgager
Definitions
- Alternative spelling of mortgager
Ancestry of “mortgagor”, step by step
mortgagor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mortgage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mortgage | A special form of secured loan where the purpose... |
| 2 | Middle French | mortgage | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | morgage | mortgage |
| 4 | Old French | mort | past participle of morir; dead; death |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | mortus | — |
| 6 | Latin | mortuus | dead, having died; decayed, withered; faint,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | mortwos | dead |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | mr̥twós | dead |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mer- | to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland |
via English ‐or
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ‐or | Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed |
| 2 | Middle English | -our | — |
| 3 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 4 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |