Where does “captă” come from?
captă (Romanian) comes from French capter, from Latin captō, from Latin capiō, from Proto-Italic kapiō, from Proto-Italic kapjō, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂pyéti, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂p- — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
captă (Romanian): shoemaker's last
Definitions
- shoemaker's last
Ancestry of “captă”, step by step
captă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French capter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | capter | to capture, to catch, to pick up; to detect, to... |
| 2 | Latin | captō | to strive to seize, catch or grasp at |
| 3 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |