Where does “cântări” come from?
cântări (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.
cântări (Romanian): to weigh (something), as with a scale
Definitions
- to weigh (something), as with a scale
Ancestry of “cântări”, step by step
cântări traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian cântar
| 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- | — |