Where does “ventilatur” come from?

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

ventilatur (Maltese): fan, ventilator

Definitions

  1. fan, ventilator

Ancestry of “ventilatur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianventilatorefan
2Italian-toreAdded to verbs to form masculine nouns and...
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 →