Where does “apuntador” come from?
apuntador (Spanish) comes from Catalan apuntar, from Catalan punt, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
apuntador (Spanish): pointing; pointer; prompter
Definitions
- pointing; pointer; prompter
Ancestry of “apuntador”, step by step
apuntador traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan apuntar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | apuntar | to note, to write down; to sign up; to point |
| 2 | Catalan | punt | point; dot, point; dot |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Spanish apuntar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | apuntar | to point, to aim, to take aim; to point out, to... |
| 2 | Spanish | -ar | In adjectives, indicating membership or status;... |
| 3 | Old Spanish | -ar | indicates membership or status |
| 4 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |