Where does “desenator” come from?
desenator (Romanian) comes from French dessinateur, from French -ateur, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
desenator (Romanian): drawer, cartoonist, draughtsman
Definitions
- drawer, cartoonist, draughtsman
Ancestry of “desenator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | dessinateur | designer, draughtsman |
| 2 | French | -ateur | -ator |
| 3 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |