Where does “fabulateur” come from?

fabulateur (French) comes from French fabuler, from Latin fābulor, from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

fabulateur (French): fantasizing; fantasizer

Definitions

  1. fantasizing; fantasizer

Ancestry of “fabulateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfabulerto fantasize
2Latinfābulorto chat, converse, talk
3Latinfābuladiscourse, narrative
4Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
5Proto-Italic-olos
6Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
7Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin fābula
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