Etymology Explorer › Old French

Where does “maintenour” come from?

maintenour (Old French) comes from Old French mainteneor, from French mainteneur, from French -eur, from Middle French -eur, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.

Ancestry of “maintenour”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmainteneor—
2Frenchmainteneurmaintainer
3French-eurUsed to form agent nouns from verbs; API f; -ness
4Middle French-eurUsed to form agent nouns from verbs
5Old French-eorAlternative form of -or
6Latin-ator-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
7Latin-tor-er
8Proto-Italic-tōr—
9Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
10Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “maintenour”

  • maintainer
  • maintainership
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