Where does “Äquator” come from?

Äquator (Luxembourgish) comes from German Äquator, from Latin aequātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Äquator (Luxembourgish): equator

Definitions

  1. equator

Ancestry of “Äquator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanÄquatorequator
2Latinaequātorcoin inspector or assayer
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—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin aequātor →