Where does “percolator” come from?
percolator (English) comes from English percolate, from Latin percolatus, from Latin percōlō, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- — to turn.
percolator (English): A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling...
Definitions
- A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling...
Ancestry of “percolator”, step by step
percolator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English percolate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | percolate | To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to... |
| 2 | Latin | percolatus | strained through, filtered through, percolated |
| 3 | Latin | percōlō | to strain or filter through; to percolate |
| 4 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 5 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
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 | — |