actor
Latin
noun
Definitions
- doer
- actor person who performs in a theatrical play or movie
- (legal) prosecutor, plaintiff, advocate, orator
Etymology
Suffix from Latin āctus (action, behaviour, a cattle drive, units of length and area, act, a cattle path) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (drive, lead, push, herd).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Gloss
drive, lead, push, herd
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
鉛
Emoji
🚂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- actor English
- actus English
- ambiguous English
- chastise English
- chastisement English
- cogitabund English
- congestive English
- countergesture English
- digester English
- egest English
- egesta English
- egestion English
- egestive English
- gestate English
- gestation English
- gesticulation English
- gesticulative English
- gestural English
- gesturalism English
- gesture English
- gestureless English
- gesturelike English
- react English
- reaction English
- squatter English
- squattocracy English
- suggest English
- actio Latin
- activus Latin
- actrix Latin
- actualis Latin
- actuo Latin
- actus Latin
- actus reus Latin
- actutum Latin
- actuāle(actuālem, m) Latin
- actuālis Latin
- aeger Latin
- agendus, agenda Latin
- agilis Latin
- agitatus Latin
- agito Latin
- agēns Latin
- ambigo Latin
- ambiguus Latin
- castigo Latin
- castīgāre Latin
- coactus Latin
- cogitatio Latin
- cogo Latin
- congero Latin
- congestĭō Latin
- cōgēns Latin
- degero Latin
- dīgestus Latin
- exactus Latin
- exigentia Latin
- exigo Latin
- exigēns Latin
- gestatio Latin
- gesticulatus Latin
- gesto Latin
- gestus Latin
- ingero Latin
- intergero Latin
- oggero Latin
- praegero Latin
- progero Latin
- ācta Latin
- āctiō Latin
- āctor Latin
- āctus Latin
- āctuāre Latin
- āctuātus Latin
- āctōrem Latin
- Akt German
- Akteur German
- attore Italian
- acteur Dutch, Flemish
- acteur French
- réactionnaire French
- актёр Russian
- actor Spanish, Castilian
- actor de voz Spanish, Castilian
- προσαγωγός Ancient Greek
- ἀγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀναγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀξιόχρεως Ancient Greek
- ἀρωγή Ancient Greek
- ἄξιος Ancient Greek
- ὁπλιταγωγός Ancient Greek
- ὄναγρος Ancient Greek
- *h₂(e)ǵ-ó-s, *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵro- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éǵeti Proto-Indo-European
- *kesa Proto-Indo-European
- *pelh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- aktør Norwegian Bokmål
- *akaną Proto-Germanic
- aktör Swedish
- aktør Norwegian Nynorsk
- अज् Sanskrit
- आजि Sanskrit
- acht Irish
- akt Czech
- digestible Old French
- digestion Old French
- actor Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- akta Indonesian
- ածեմ Old Armenian
- aktör Turkish
- ág Old Irish
- acteur Norman
- acteur Middle French
- exigence Middle French
- *ageti Proto-Celtic
- *ambaxtos Proto-Celtic
- *ɸel- Proto-Celtic
- *ɸiɸlāti Proto-Celtic
- *Háȷ́ati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- attur Maltese
- *agō Proto-Italic
- *gezō Proto-Italic
- agnus Lithuanian
- atturi Sicilian
- *aja- fiu-pro
- *ekäñye- Proto-Tocharian
- *āk Proto-Tocharian
- *āk- Proto-Tocharian
- m)
- ācta
- cogo
- aeger
- agēns
- āctiō
- actus
- āctus
- gesto
- āctor
- agito
- exigo
- actuo
- actio
- ingero
- gestus
- degero
- agilis
- oggero
- ambigo
- actrix
- cōgēns
- congero
- exactus
- progero
- āctōrem
- actutum
- āctuāre
- castigo
- coactus
- activus
- agendus
- agenda
- exigēns
- actuālis
- agitatus
- gestatio
- dīgestus
- ambiguus
- actualis
- āctuātus
- praegero
- congestĭō
- cogitatio
- castīgāre
- exigentia
- intergero
- actus reus
- gesticulatus
- actuāle(actuālem