Where does “aspirator” come from?
aspirator (Romanian) comes from French aspirateur, from French -ateur, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
aspirator (Romanian): vacuum cleaner; sucking up, extracting
Definitions
- vacuum cleaner; sucking up, extracting
Ancestry of “aspirator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | aspirateur | vacuum cleaner; aspirator |
| 2 | French | -ateur | -ator |
| 3 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |