Where does “ベクトル” come from?

ベクトル (Japanese) comes from German Vektor, from Latin vector, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

ベクトル (Japanese): vector; direction

Definitions

  1. vector; direction

Ancestry of “ベクトル”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanVektorvector
2Latinvectorbearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “ベクトル”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin vector →