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Where does “restaurateur” come from?

restaurateur (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.

restaurateur (French): restorer; restaurateur, restaurant owner

Definitions

  1. restorer; restaurateur, restaurant owner

Ancestry of “restaurateur”, step by step

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

Words derived from “restaurateur”

  • restaurateur
  • restaurateuring
  • restaurateurial
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →