Where does “biomasă” come from?
biomasă (Romanian) comes from English biomass, from English Mass, from Middle English messe, from Old English mæsse, from Vulgar Latin messa, from Latin missa, from Latin missum, from Latin mittō — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
biomasă (Romanian): biomass
Definitions
- biomass
Ancestry of “biomasă”, step by step
biomasă traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English biomass
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | biomass | The total mass of a living thing or part thereof,... |
| 2 | English | Mass | The principal liturgical service of the Church,... |
| 3 | Middle English | messe | Mass; The Eucharist; Holy Communion; The act of... |
| 4 | Old English | mæsse | mass |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | messa | Eucharist, dismissal; Eucharist; dismissal;... |
| 6 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 7 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 8 | Latin | mittō | to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | meitō | to put forth, put out |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |
via Romanian masă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | masă | table; meal; mass |
| 2 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 3 | Old French | mace | mace weapon |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 5 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via French biomasse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | biomasse | biomass |