Where does “dictateur” come from?
dictateur (Norman) comes from French dictateur, from Latin dictātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
dictateur (Norman): dictator
Ancestry of “dictateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | dictateur | dictator |
| 2 | Latin | dictātor | — |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |