Etymograph

English

adulatress

From adulator + -ess.

Formed from adulator + -ess

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’

Latin ad ‘to, towards’

Latin adūlor ‘to fawn upon’

Latin adūlātor

English adulator

Today it means

noun A female adulator.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / adulatress