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Where does “teruro” come from?

teruro (Esperanto) comes from French terreur, from Middle French terreur, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

Ancestry of “teruro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchterreurterror; terrorcore
2Middle Frenchterreurterror
3Old Frenchterreurterror
4Latinterrora dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an...
5Latinfaciō—
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōrius—
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōr—
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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