Where does “cantor” come from?

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

cantor (Welsh): singer

Definitions

  1. singer

Ancestry of “cantor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Welshkantor—
2Latincantorsinger; player; first-person singular present...
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—

Words derived from “cantor”

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