Etymology

selector

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Today it means: Someone or something which selects or chooses. Full definition →

English select ← Latin sēlēctu ← Proto-Italic *legō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*s(w)é
  2. Latinsē-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*léǵeti
  5. Proto-Italic*legō
  6. Latinlegō
  7. Latinsēlegō
  8. Latinsēlēctu
  9. Englishselect
  10. English todayselector

From select + -or.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.