Where does “amortiza” come from?
amortiza (Romanian) comes from French amortir, from Old French amortir, from Vulgar Latin admortire, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
amortiza (Romanian): to amortize
Definitions
- to amortize
Ancestry of “amortiza”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | amortir | to cushion, absorb, soften; to deaden, muffle; to... |
| 2 | Old French | amortir | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | admortire | to kill; present active infinitive of *admortēscō |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |