Where does “adulador” come from?

adulador (Portuguese) comes from Latin adūlātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

adulador (Portuguese): flatterer

Definitions

  1. flatterer

Ancestry of “adulador”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadūlātora low cringing flatterer; a sycophant
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -torEvery word from Latin adūlātor
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