Where does “retaliator” come from?
retaliator (English) comes from English retaliate, from Latin retaliatus, from Latin retaliare, from Latin taliō, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European tód, from Proto-Indo-European to-, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.
retaliator (English): One who retaliates
Definitions
- One who retaliates
Ancestry of “retaliator”, step by step
retaliator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English retaliate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | retaliate | To do something harmful or negative to get... |
| 2 | Latin | retaliatus | — |
| 3 | Latin | retaliare | — |
| 4 | Latin | taliō | punishment equal to the injury sustained; retaliation |
| 5 | Latin | tālis | such |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tód | demonstrative pronoun; that; it |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |
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 | — |