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

Definitions

  1. dictator

Ancestry of “dictateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdictateurdictator
2Latindictātoran elected chief magistrate
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 →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin dictātor →