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Where does “proditor” come from?

proditor (English) comes from Latin proditor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

proditor (English): A traitor

Definitions

  1. A traitor

Ancestry of “proditor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinproditortraitor, betrayer; second-person singular future...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōr—
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →