Etymology

Ecuadorian

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Today it means: A person from Ecuador or of Ecuadorian descent. Full definition →

English Ecuador ← Spanish Ecuador ← Medieval Latin aequātōrem
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*aikʷos?
  2. Old Latinaiquos
  3. Latinaequus
  4. Latinaequō
  5. Medieval Latinaequātōrem
  6. Spanishecuador
  7. SpanishEcuador
  8. EnglishEcuador
  9. English todayEcuadorian

From Ecuador + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.