Where does “ベクトル積” come from?

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

ベクトル積 (Japanese): a vector product

Definitions

  1. a vector product

Ancestry of “ベクトル積”, step by step

ベクトル積 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ベクトル

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseベクトルvector; direction
2GermanVektorvector
3Latinvectorbearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular...
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseproduct
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s