sorcerer

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ser-“to bind”
2. Latin · derived fromsortem“fate, fortune”
3. Early Medieval Latin · derived fromsortiārius
4. Old French · derived fromsorcer, sorcier
5. Middle English · inherited fromsorcerere
6. English todaysorcerer

From Middle English sorcerere, from stem sorcer- (as in sorceresse and sorcery) + -ere, from Old French sorcer, sorcier, from Early Medieval Latin sortiārius, derived from Latin sortem (“fate, fortune”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

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