Where does “procrastinator” come from?
procrastinator (English) comes from English procrastinate, from Latin procrastinatus, from Latin prōcrāstinō, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr, from Proto-Indo-European h₂reh₁- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
procrastinator (English): One who procrastinates; one who delays working on...
Definitions
- One who procrastinates; one who delays working on...
Ancestry of “procrastinator”, step by step
procrastinator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English procrastinate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | procrastinate | To delay taking action; to wait until later; To... |
| 2 | Latin | procrastinatus | |
| 3 | Latin | prōcrāstinō | to put off until tomorrow; to defer, delay, procrastinate |
| 4 | Latin | prō | for |
| 5 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 6 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |
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 | — |