Where does “calculator” come from?
calculator (Romanian) comes from French calculateur, from French calculer, from Latin calculāre, from Latin calculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
calculator (Romanian): calculator; computer
Definitions
- calculator; computer
Ancestry of “calculator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | calculateur | calculating; calculating person; calculator |
| 2 | French | calculer | to calculate |
| 3 | Latin | calculāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | calculus | diminutive of calx; pebble, stone; reckoning,... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |