Where does “criar” come from?
criar (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese criar, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
criar (Portuguese): to create, to put into existence; to invent; to...
Definitions
- to create, to put into existence; to invent; to...
Ancestry of “criar”, step by step
criar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Portuguese criar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | criar | to raise |
| 2 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
via Latin creāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | creāre | — |