Where does “pipettor” come from?
pipettor (English) comes from English pipette, from French pipette, from French pipe, from English pipe, from Middle English pīpe, from Middle English pipen, from Old English pīpian, from Proto-West Germanic pīpan — I pip, peep.
pipettor (English): A pipette; An automated device for pipetting
Definitions
- A pipette; An automated device for pipetting
Ancestry of “pipettor”, step by step
pipettor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pipette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pipette | A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb... |
| 2 | French | pipette | pipette |
| 3 | French | pipe | tobacco pipe; blowjob; the pipe symbol |
| 4 | English | pipe | Meanings relating to a wind instrument; Meanings... |
| 5 | Middle English | pīpe | A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids) |
| 6 | Middle English | pipen | To use a pipe or similar musical instrument; to... |
| 7 | Old English | pīpian | to pipe |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | pīpan | to peep, to chirp, to squeak |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | pīpaną | To chirp or pipe like a bird or rodent; To talk... |
| 10 | Latin | pipo | I pip, peep |
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 | — |