Where does “cântăraș” come from?
cântăraș (Romanian) comes from Romanian cântar, from Ottoman Turkish قنطار, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum, from Latin folium.
Ancestry of “cântăraș”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cântar | scale; steelyard |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | قنطار | kantar; steelyard; hundredweight, quintal |
| 3 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 4 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 5 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 6 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 7 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 8 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |