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Where does “împotrivă” come from?

împotrivă (Romanian) comes from Romanian în-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

împotrivă (Romanian): contra; in front of

Definitions

  1. contra; in front of

Ancestry of “împotrivă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianîn-used to denote derivation
2Latinīn-—
3Latinîn—
4Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
5Proto-Italicenin
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →