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
- One who uses or makes use of something, a...
Ancestry of “user”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | R | The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Etruscan | 𐌓 | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Ρ | rho |
| 4 | Phoenician | 𐤓 | reš; resh |
| 5 | Egyptian | 𓁶 | — |
Words derived from “user”