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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancartebook; card; plural of cartă
2Latinchartapapyrus, paper; poem, a writing; map
3Frenchcartela cartel
4Italiancartellosign, notice, placard, signboard; signpost, road...
5Italiancartapaper; map; menu
6Latincartapapyrus; letter etc
7Ancient Greekχάρτηςsheet of paper, paper; book
8Ancient Greekχαράσσωto sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰer-to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines

via Romanian putred

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianputredputrid, rotten; corrupt
2Latinputridusrotten, decayed, putrid; withered
3Latinpūtreōto be rotten, decaying, putrid
4Latin-eō
5Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
6Proto-Italic-ējō
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
8Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰer-
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