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