Where does “cântăreală” come from?
cântăreală (Romanian) comes from Romanian cântări, from Romanian cântar, from Ottoman Turkish قنطار, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum.
cântăreală (Romanian): weighting
Definitions
- weighting
Ancestry of “cântăreală”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cântări | to weigh (something), as with a scale |
| 2 | Romanian | cântar | scale; steelyard |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | قنطار | kantar; steelyard; hundredweight, quintal |
| 4 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 5 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 6 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 7 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 8 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 9 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |