Where does “agiotor” come from?
agiotor (Romanian) comes from French agioteur, from French agioter, from French agio, from Italian aggio, from Old Occitan aize, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad- — in.
agiotor (Romanian): speculator (in the financial market)
Definitions
- speculator (in the financial market)
Ancestry of “agiotor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | agioteur | speculator |
| 2 | French | agioter | to speculate |
| 3 | French | agio | exchange premium, agio |
| 4 | Italian | aggio | premium |
| 5 | Old Occitan | aize | ease |
| 6 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 7 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |