Where does “itsesensuuri” come from?
itsesensuuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish sensuuri, from Swedish censur, from Italian censore, from Latin cēnsor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
itsesensuuri (Finnish): self-censorship
Definitions
- self-censorship
Ancestry of “itsesensuuri”, step by step
itsesensuuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sensuuri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sensuuri | censorship; censorial |
| 2 | Swedish | censur | censorship |
| 3 | Italian | censore | censor; critic |
| 4 | Latin | cēnsor | censor |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |