Etymology

interrupter

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Today it means: One who or that which interrupts. Full definition →

English interrupt ← Middle English interrupten ← Latin interruptus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*Hrew-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*Hrewp-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*Hrunépti
  9. Latinrumpō
  10. Latininterrumpō
  11. Latininterruptus
  12. Middle Englishinterrupten
  13. Englishinterrupt
  14. English todayinterrupter

From interrupt + -er.

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