Where does “doctoriță” come from?
doctoriță (Romanian) comes from Romanian doctor, from French docteur, from Latin doctor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
doctoriță (Romanian): female doctor
Ancestry of “doctoriță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | doctor | doctor |
| 2 | French | docteur | a doctor; a doctor , especially a male doctor |
| 3 | Latin | doctor | teacher, instructor; catechist |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |