Where does “imitatore” come from?

imitatore (Italian) comes from Latin imitator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

imitatore (Italian): imitator

Definitions

  1. imitator

Ancestry of “imitatore”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinimitatorimitator; mimic; second-person singular future...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tōr →