Where does “infect” come from?
infect (Romanian) comes from French infect, from Latin infectus, from Latin īnficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
infect (Romanian): revolting, disgusting
Definitions
- revolting, disgusting
Ancestry of “infect”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | infect | vile, loathsome; revolting, disgusting |
| 2 | Latin | infectus | not done, undone; unfinished; impossible |
| 3 | Latin | īnficiō | to dip, to dunk, to submerge |
| 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 | — |