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Where does “fótachlóchuradóireacht” come from?

fótachlóchuradóireacht (Irish) comes from Irish clóchuradóireacht, from Irish clóchuradóir, from Irish -adóir, from Old Irish -atóir, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.

fótachlóchuradóireacht (Irish): phototypesetting, photocomposition

Definitions

  1. phototypesetting, photocomposition

Ancestry of “fótachlóchuradóireacht”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishclóchuradóireachttypesetting
2Irishclóchuradóirtypesetter
3Irish-adóirSuffix appended to words to create an agent noun,...
4Old Irish-atóir—
5Latin-ator-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōr—
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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