Where does “cantor” come from?

cantor (Venetian) comes from Latin cantor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

cantor (Venetian): singer, chorister

Definitions

  1. singer, chorister

Ancestry of “cantor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincantorsinger; player; first-person singular present...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin cantor →