Where does “humidificateur” come from?

humidificateur (French) comes from French -ateur, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

humidificateur (French): humidifier (a device that is used to increase the humidity of the air)

Definitions

  1. humidifier (a device that is used to increase the humidity of the air)

Ancestry of “humidificateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ateur-ator
2Latin-ator-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from French -ateur →