Where does “vectơ” come from?
vectơ (Vietnamese) comes from French vecteur, from Latin vector, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
vectơ (Vietnamese): a vector
Definitions
- a vector
Ancestry of “vectơ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | vecteur | disease-carrying; disease-carrier, vector; vector |
| 2 | Latin | vector | bearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |