Where does “doctora” come from?
doctora (Latin) comes from Latin doctoro, from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
doctora (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...
Definitions
- second-person singular present active imperative...
Ancestry of “doctora”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | doctoro | I award a doctorate; I attain a doctorate |
| 2 | Latin | doctor | teacher, instructor; catechist |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |