Where does “meritorious” come from?

meritorious (Middle English) comes from Latin meritorius, from Latin -torius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Ancestry of “meritorious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinmeritoriusOf or pertaining to the earning of money, by...
2Latin-torius-ory
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—

Words derived from “meritorious”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin -torius →