Where does “împotrivi” come from?

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

împotrivi (Romanian): to resist

Definitions

  1. to resist

Ancestry of “împotrivi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianîmpotrivăcontra; in front of
2Romanianîn-used to denote derivation
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “împotrivi”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →