Where does “censur” come from?

censur (Swedish) comes from Italian censore, from Latin cēnsor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

censur (Swedish): censorship

Definitions

  1. censorship

Ancestry of “censur”, step by step

censur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian censore

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancensorecensor; critic
2Latincēnsorcensor
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—

via Latin censūra

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatincensūraThe office of a censor; censorship
2Latin-tūraing, -ure, -work

Words derived from “censur”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin cēnsor →
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