Where does “escalator” come from?

escalator (Romanian) comes from French escalator, from English escalator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

escalator (Romanian): escalator

Definitions

  1. escalator

Ancestry of “escalator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchescalatorescalator
2EnglishescalatorAnything that escalates; A motor-driven...
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 →