Where does “Verzerrungsfaktor” come from?

Verzerrungsfaktor (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.

Verzerrungsfaktor (German): distortion factor

Definitions

  1. distortion factor

Ancestry of “Verzerrungsfaktor”, step by step

Verzerrungsfaktor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Faktor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFaktorfactor
2LatinfactorOne who or which does or makes something; doer,...
3Latinfaciōto do
4Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
5Latin-tōriusory
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via German Verzerrung

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanVerzerrungdistortion
2Germanverzerrento distort
3GermanVer-Inseparable verbal prefix indicating privation or the direction of 'forth', 'away'
4Middle High Germanver-
5Proto-Germanicfra-off, away; completely, fully, up
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpro-toward, forward
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpor-to give birth; forward, through; going, passage
8Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
9Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -toriumEvery word from Latin -tor