Where does “Carteputredă” come from?
Carteputredă (Romanian) comes from Romanian carte, from Latin charta, from French cartel, from Italian cartello, from Italian carta, from Latin carta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης, from Ancient Greek χαράσσω — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
Ancestry of “Carteputredă”, step by step
Carteputredă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian carte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | carte | book; card; plural of cartă |
| 2 | Latin | charta | papyrus, paper; poem, a writing; map |
| 3 | French | cartel | a cartel |
| 4 | Italian | cartello | sign, notice, placard, signboard; signpost, road... |
| 5 | Italian | carta | paper; map; menu |
| 6 | Latin | carta | papyrus; letter etc |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |
via Romanian putred
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | putred | putrid, rotten; corrupt |
| 2 | Latin | putridus | rotten, decayed, putrid; withered |
| 3 | Latin | pūtreō | to be rotten, decaying, putrid |
| 4 | Latin | -eō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |