Where does “profittatur” come from?

profittatur (Maltese) comes from Italian profittatore, from Italian -tore, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

profittatur (Maltese): profiteer

Definitions

profiteer

Ancestry of “profittatur”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	profittatore	profiteer, exploiter
2	Italian	-tore	Added to verbs to form masculine nouns and...
3	Latin	-tor	-er
4	Proto-Italic	-tōr	Forms agent nouns to verb stems
5	Proto-Indo-European	-tōr	Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6	Proto-Indo-European	-tor-s	—

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Italian -tore →