Where does “auros” come from?
auros (Romanian) comes from Occitan aur, from Old Occitan aur, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus.
auros (Romanian): golden; gold in color
Ancestry of “auros”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Occitan | aur | gold |
| 2 | Old Occitan | aur | gold |
| 3 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 4 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 6 | Latin | audeō | — |
| 7 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 8 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |