Where does “avantajare” come from?
avantajare (Romanian) comes from Romanian avantaja, from French avantager, from French avantage, from Old French avantage, from Old French avant, from Latin ab ante, from Latin ante, from Ancient Greek κλίσις — Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots.
avantajare (Romanian): favoring
Definitions
- favoring
Ancestry of “avantajare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | avantaja | to give an advantage |
| 2 | French | avantager | to favour; to give an advantage to |
| 3 | French | avantage | advantage |
| 4 | Old French | avantage | advantage; profit; gain |
| 5 | Old French | avant | beforehand; earlier |
| 6 | Latin | ab ante | in front, before |
| 7 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |