Borrowed from Swedish dator ( “ computer ” ) .
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitizationdator
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From Proto-Indo-European * déh₃tōr ( “ giver, donor ” ) , from the root * deh₃- ( “ to give ” ) (whence also Latin dō ). Cognates include Ancient Greek δώτωρ ( dṓtōr ) and Sanskrit दातृ ( dā́tar- ) .
Inherited from Vulgar Latin root * debtoriu < * dēbitōrius for Latin dēbitor ( “ debtor ” ) , ultimately from dēbitum ( “ debt ” ) , from dēbeō ( “ to owe ” ) ; influenced by the verb da ( “ to give ” ) . Compare Aromanian dãtor . Doublet of the borrowing debitor .
From data + -or . Proposed in 1967 by professor Börje Langefors , as a parallel to doktor and traktor , based on data . Earlier Swedish words for computer were kalkylator , matematikmaskin , elektronhjärna and datamaskin , the latter often colloquially abbreviated to data .
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The brand and species name began as a broader Indigenous predator word.
Portuguese carried Tupi jawára into English, where a broad large-carnivore label became the name of Panthera onca.
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