Where does “arondismento” come from?
arondismento (Esperanto) comes from French arrondissement, from French arrondir, from French rond, from Old French reont, from Latin retundus, from Latin rotundus, from Latin rotō, from Latin Rota — to run.
arondismento (Esperanto): a district, especially an arrondissement
Definitions
- a district, especially an arrondissement
Ancestry of “arondismento”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | arrondissement | Arrondissement; Arrondissement, a borough |
| 2 | French | arrondir | To round; To round up, round down or round off |
| 3 | French | rond | round; drunk; circle |
| 4 | Old French | reont | round |
| 5 | Latin | retundus | round |
| 6 | Latin | rotundus | round, circular; spherical, rotund; rounded,... |
| 7 | Latin | rotō | to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish |
| 8 | Latin | Rota | an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | rotā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hróth₂-eh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreth₂- | to run |