Where does “cursor” come from?

cursor (Romanian) comes from French curseur, from Latin Cursor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

cursor (Romanian): cursor

Definitions

  1. cursor

Ancestry of “cursor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcurseurcursor
2LatinCursorfamously held by
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—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin Cursor →