Where does “purchaser” come from?
Purchaser derives from English purchase combined with the agent suffix -er, itself from Old French -er, descended from Latin -āre (infinitive marker) and -ārius (agent noun suffix), ultimately from Proto-Italic -os.
purchaser (English): One who purchases
Definitions
- One who purchases
Ancestry of “purchaser”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | purchase | The acquisition of title to, or property in,... |
| 2 | Middle English | purchasen | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | purchacer | seek to obtain; Alternative form of porchacier;... |
| 4 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 5 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 6 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 7 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |