Where does “adevărat” come from?
adevărat (Romanian) comes from Romanian adevăra, from Romanian adevăr, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
adevărat (Romanian): true; real
Ancestry of “adevărat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | adevăra | — |
| 2 | Romanian | adevăr | truth |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |