Where does “adulateur” come from?

adulateur (French) comes from Latin adūlātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

adulateur (French): adulator

Definitions

  1. adulator

Ancestry of “adulateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadūlātora low cringing flatterer; a sycophant
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “adulateur”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin adūlātor →