Where does “factitiv” come from?
factitiv (Romanian) comes from French factitif, from Latin factito, from Latin factō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
factitiv (Romanian): factitive
Definitions
- factitive
Ancestry of “factitiv”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | factitif | causative; factitive (said of a verb where the subject is made to do the action) |
| 2 | Latin | factito | I do or make frequently; I practise |
| 3 | Latin | factō | to make, do, or perform regularly or frequently |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |