Where does “contraface” come from?

contraface (Romanian) comes from Romanian face, from Romanian -tor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

contraface (Romanian): to counterfeit

Definitions

  1. to counterfeit

Ancestry of “contraface”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianfacedo, make; to be made, to be done
2Romanian-tor-er; -ing
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “contraface”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →