Where does “explicateur” come from?
explicateur (French) comes from Middle French explicateur, from Latin explicator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
explicateur (French): explainer, expounder; explicator
Definitions
- explainer, expounder; explicator
Ancestry of “explicateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | explicateur | — |
| 2 | Latin | explicator | an expounder, explainer; second-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |