Where does “Popescu” come from?
Popescu comes from Romanian -escu, a diminutive suffix from Old Church Slavonic попъ meaning "priest," ultimately derived from Latin -iscus and Proto-Indo-European -iskos.
Ancestry of “Popescu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | Popescu | — |
| 2 | Romanian | -escu | suffix forming many Romanian surnames, e.g.... |
| 3 | Romanian | -esc | -esque, -ish; Used with a stem to form the... |
| 4 | Latin | -ēscō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-ēskō | — |