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
Ancestry of “ecuador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | aequator | equalizer; equator; second-person singular future... |
| 2 | Latin | aequō | — |
| 3 | Latin | æquus | — |
| 4 | Latin | vocāre | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |
Words derived from “ecuador”