Where does “auto-sacrifice” come from?
auto-sacrifice (French) comes from French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium, from Latin sacrificus, from Latin sacrificō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
auto-sacrifice (French): self-sacrifice
Ancestry of “auto-sacrifice”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | sacrifice | sacrifice |
| 2 | Latin | sacrificium | Something made sacred or given to a deity,... |
| 3 | Latin | sacrificus | Of or pertaining to sacrificing, sacrificial;... |
| 4 | Latin | sacrificō | — |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |