Etymology

abstractor

A1B3S1T1R1A1C3T1O1R1

Today it means: A clerk of a certain title or grade in the British civil service. Full definition →

First used First attested in the mid 17ᵗʰ century.English abstract ← Middle English abstract ← Latin abstractus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Italic*ap
  4. Latinab
  5. Latinab-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
  7. Latintrahō
  8. Latinabstrahō
  9. Latinabstractus
  10. Middle Englishabstract
  11. Englishabstract
  12. English todayabstractor

From abstract + -or.

First known use, by meaning

  • First attested in the mid 17ᵗʰ century. Alternative form of abstracter

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.