Where does “agiota” come from?
agiota (Romanian) comes from French agioter, from French agio, from Italian aggio, from Old Occitan aize, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
agiota (Romanian): to speculate
Definitions
- to speculate
Ancestry of “agiota”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | agioter | to speculate |
| 2 | French | agio | exchange premium, agio |
| 3 | Italian | aggio | premium |
| 4 | Old Occitan | aize | ease |
| 5 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 6 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |