Where does “virgator” come from?

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

virgator (Latin): flogger; whipper

Definitions

  1. flogger; whipper

Ancestry of “virgator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-tor-er
2Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
3Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
4Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →