Where does “excavatorist” come from?
excavatorist (Romanian) comes from Romanian excavator, from French excavateur, from English excavator, from English excavate, from Latin excavātus, from Latin excavō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
excavatorist (Romanian): excavator operator
Definitions
- excavator operator
Ancestry of “excavatorist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | excavator | excavator, digger |
| 2 | French | excavateur | excavator |
| 3 | English | excavator | A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape... |
| 4 | English | excavate | To make a hole in (something); to hollow |
| 5 | Latin | excavātus | excavated |
| 6 | Latin | excavō | to hollow out, excavate |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |