Where does “burtă-verde” come from?

burtă-verde (Romanian) comes from Romanian verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, from Latin viridis, from Latin vireō, from Latin -idae.

burtă-verde (Romanian): bourgeois philistine

Definitions

  1. bourgeois philistine

Ancestry of “burtă-verde”, step by step

burtă-verde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian verde

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianverdegreen; green, marijuana
2Vulgar Latinvirdis
3Latinviridisgreen; young, fresh, lively, youthful
4Latinvireōto be verdant, green; to sprout new green growth
5Latin-idae

via Romanian burtă

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianburtăbelly
Every word from Latin -idae
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