Where does “diktatuurimaa” come from?
diktatuurimaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish diktatuuri, from Latin dictātūra, from Latin dictātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
diktatuurimaa (Finnish): dictatorship
Definitions
- dictatorship
Ancestry of “diktatuurimaa”, step by step
diktatuurimaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish diktatuuri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | diktatuuri | dictatorship |
| 2 | Latin | dictātūra | dictatorship, office of a dictator |
| 3 | Latin | dictātor | an elected chief magistrate |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |