Where does “cuatrimotor” come from?

cuatrimotor (Spanish) comes from Spanish motor, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

cuatrimotor (Spanish): a four-engined plane

Definitions

  1. a four-engined plane

Ancestry of “cuatrimotor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishmotormoving; motor; engine
2Latinmotormover; that which moves something; first-person...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin motor →