Where does “Umrechnungsfaktor” come from?
Umrechnungsfaktor (German) comes from German Faktor, from Latin factor, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
Umrechnungsfaktor (German): conversion factor
Definitions
- conversion factor
Ancestry of “Umrechnungsfaktor”, step by step
Umrechnungsfaktor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Faktor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Faktor | factor |
| 2 | Latin | factor | One who or which does or makes something; doer,... |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via German Umrechnung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Umrechnung | conversion, translation |
| 2 | German | umrechnen | to convert |
| 3 | German | rechnen | to count, reckon, calculate, compute; to expect |
| 4 | Middle High German | rechenen | — |
| 5 | Old High German | rehhanōn | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | rekanōną | to count; to explain |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃reǵ- | to straighten, to right oneself; right; just |