Where does “Équateur” come from?
Équateur (French) comes from Latin aequātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
Équateur (French): equator imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere
Definitions
- equator imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere
Ancestry of “Équateur”, step by step
Équateur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin aequātor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | aequātor | coin inspector or assayer |
| 2 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Medieval Latin aequator
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | aequator | equalizer; equator; second-person singular future... |