Etymology

graphomotor

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Today it means: Relating to the visual and motor skills involved in writing Full definition →

English motor ← Middle English motour ← Latin mōtor
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  3. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  4. Englishgrapho-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  7. Proto-Italic*moweō
  8. Latinmoveō
  9. Latinmōtor
  10. Middle Englishmotour
  11. Englishmotor
  12. English todaygraphomotor

From grapho- + motor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.