Where does “asaltare” come from?
asaltare (Romanian) comes from Romanian asalta, from Italian assaltare, from Italian assalto, from Medieval Latin assaltus, from Latin assaliō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
asaltare (Romanian): assault
Definitions
- assault
Ancestry of “asaltare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | asalta | to assault |
| 2 | Italian | assaltare | to attack, assault; to hold up |
| 3 | Italian | assalto | assault, raid, storming; hold up; bout |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | assaltus | — |
| 5 | Latin | assaliō | to jump on, attack |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |