Where does “mercatorius” come from?

mercatorius (Latin) comes from Latin mercator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

mercatorius (Latin): merchant, mercantile

Definitions

  1. merchant, mercantile

Ancestry of “mercatorius”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmercatormerchant, trader; dealer, speculator
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 →