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Where does “explicateur” come from?

explicateur (Middle French) comes from Latin explicator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Ancestry of “explicateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinexplicatoran expounder, explainer; second-person singular...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōr—
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “explicateur”

  • explicateur
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