Where does “visitor” come from?

Visitor comes from Anglo-Norman visitour and Old French visiteor, meaning one who visits.

visitor (English): Someone who visits someone else; someone staying...

Definitions

  1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying...

Ancestry of “visitor”, step by step

visitor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Anglo-Norman visitour

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanvisitour—
2Old Frenchvisiteor—

via Old French visitour

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchvisitour—

Words derived from “visitor”

Every word from Old French visiteor →Every word from Anglo-Norman visitour →