Etymology

architector

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Today it means: An architect. Full definition →

Middle English architectur ← Middle French architecteur ← Medieval Latin architector
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromarchitectus
  2. Italian · derived fromarchitettore
  3. Medieval Latin · derived fromarchitector
  4. Middle French · derived fromarchitecteur
  5. Middle English · inherited fromarchitectur
  6. English todayarchitector

From Middle English architectur, from Middle French architecteur, Medieval Latin architector, and Italian architettore, from Latin architectus, architectōn, due to form-association with Latin agent nouns in -tor.

Words from the same roots

Latinarchitectus all →

architect

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.