Where does “admin” come from?
admin (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian adminisztrátor, from Latin administrātor, from Latin administrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
admin (Hungarian): administrator
Definitions
- administrator
Ancestry of “admin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | adminisztrátor | administrator, secretary, clerk |
| 2 | Latin | administrātor | manager, conductor, administrator |
| 3 | Latin | administrō | to attend upon, assist, serve |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |