Where does “instructor” come from?
instructor (Romanian) comes from French instructeur, from Latin instructor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
instructor (Romanian): instructor
Definitions
- instructor
Ancestry of “instructor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | instructeur | instructor, teacher |
| 2 | Latin | instructor | Someone who arranges something; preparer |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |