Where does “ecuador” come from?

ecuador (Spanish) comes from Medieval Latin aequator, from Latin aequō, from Latin æquus, from Latin vocāre, from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ- — to speak, to sound out.

ecuador (Spanish): equator

Definitions

  1. equator

Ancestry of “ecuador”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinaequatorequalizer; equator; second-person singular future...
2Latinaequōto equalize, make equal to something else, equate
3Latinæquusequal
4Latinvocāre
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwekʷ-to speak, to sound out

Words derived from “ecuador

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ-
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