Where does “pittur” come from?

pittur (Maltese) comes from Sicilian pitturi, from Latin Pictor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

pittur (Maltese): painter

Definitions

  1. painter

Ancestry of “pittur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sicilianpitturi—
2LatinPictorfamously held by
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 Pictor →