Where does “sortator” come from?
sortator (Romanian) comes from Romanian sorta, from German sortieren, from Italian sortire, from French sortir, from Old French sortir, from Latin sortire, from Latin sors, from Latin legere — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
sortator (Romanian): sorter
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Ancestry of “sortator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | sorta | to sort |
| 2 | German | sortieren | to sort |
| 3 | Italian | sortire | to produce |
| 4 | French | sortir | to exit, go out, come out; to take out, bring... |
| 5 | Old French | sortir | allot, sort; to go out |
| 6 | Latin | sortire | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 7 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 8 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | legō | to collect, gather, bring together, catch |
| 10 | Latin | lēx | a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |