Where does “fixer” come from?

fixer (French) comes from Middle French fixer, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

fixer (French): to fix, fasten; to fix, arrange, set; to settle

Definitions

  1. to fix, fasten; to fix, arrange, set; to settle

Ancestry of “fixer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchfixerto fix; to fasten
2Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
3Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “fixer”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →