Where does “benchet” come from?
benchet (Romanian) comes from Ukrainian бенке́т, from Polish bankiet, from French banquet, from Italian banchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.
benchet (Romanian): feast
Definitions
- feast
Ancestry of “benchet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | бенке́т | banquet, feast |
| 2 | Polish | bankiet | banquet, feast |
| 3 | French | banquet | banquet |
| 4 | Italian | banchetto | feast, banquet; first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 6 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 7 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 8 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 9 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |