Where does “bitumare” come from?

bitumare (Italian) comes from Romanian bituma, from French bitumer, from French bitume, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bitumare (Italian): to bituminize

Definitions

  1. to bituminize

Ancestry of “bitumare”, step by step

bitumare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian bituma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianbitumato asphalt
2Frenchbitumerto asphalt
3Frenchbitumebitumen, asphalt, tar; street, sidewalk;...
4Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
5Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
6Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via Italian bitume

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbitumebitumen, tar

Words derived from “bitumare”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →