Where does “automotor” come from?
automotor (Spanish) comes from French automoteur, from French moteur, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
automotor (Spanish): automotive; automobile
Ancestry of “automotor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | automoteur | automotive |
| 2 | French | moteur | motor, engine; driving force; motive, driving |
| 3 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |