Etymology

overactor

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Today it means: Someone who overacts. Full definition →

English actor ← Middle English actour ← Latin āctor
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Latinagō
  8. Latināctus
  9. Latināctor
  10. Middle Englishactour
  11. Englishactor
  12. English todayoveractor

From over- + actor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.