Where does “cantautor” come from?
cantautor (Romanian) comes from Italian cantautore, from Italian autore, from Latin auctor, from Latin augeō, from Proto-Italic augeō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂owg-éye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂weg-.
cantautor (Romanian): singer-songwriter
Ancestry of “cantautor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | cantautore | singer-songwriter |
| 2 | Italian | autore | author; creator; writer |
| 3 | Latin | auctor | seller, vendor; author; authorship, agency,... |
| 4 | Latin | augeō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | augeō | to increase; to enlarge |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂owg-éye-ti | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |