Where does “accentuare” come from?
accentuare (Romanian) comes from Romanian accentua, from French accentuer, from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accentuare (Romanian): emphasis
Definitions
- emphasis
Ancestry of “accentuare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | accentua | to accentuate |
| 2 | French | accentuer | to accentuate; to intensify; to accent |
| 3 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 4 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 5 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 6 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 7 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 8 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 9 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 10 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 11 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 12 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |