Where does “user” come from?

User comes from Middle English usere, formed with the agent suffix -er from Middle English, ultimately from Latin usura meaning interest or usury, derived from Latin verbs ending in -are and the agent suffix -arius.

user (English): One who uses or makes use of something, a...

Definitions

  1. One who uses or makes use of something, a...

Ancestry of “user”, step by step

user traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English R

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishRThe ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this...
2Etruscan𐌓—
3Ancient GreekΡrho
4Phoenician𐤓reš; resh
5Egyptian𓁶—

via Middle English usere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishusereOne who makes use of something; a user; An...
2Middle Englishusen
3Old Frenchusser—

Words derived from “user”

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