Where does “imitator” come from?

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

imitator (Romanian): copycat

Definitions

  1. copycat

Ancestry of “imitator”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchimitateurimitator, impersonator, mimic
2Latinimitatorimitator; mimic; second-person singular future...
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—

Words derived from “imitator”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tōr →