Where does “ŝoforo” come from?

ŝoforo (Esperanto) comes from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō, from Latin faciō.

ŝoforo (Esperanto): chauffeur, driver

Definitions

  1. chauffeur, driver

Ancestry of “ŝoforo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchchauffeurstoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur
2Frenchchaufferto heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice...
3Middle Frenchchauffer
4Old FrenchchaufferAlternative form of chaufer
5Old Frenchchauferto heat; to heat up; to warm
6Vulgar Latincalefare
7Latincalefaciōto warm or heat
8Latinfaciōto do
9Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
10Latin-tōriusory
11Latin-tor-er
12Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
13Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
14Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s