Where does “centrifugă” come from?

centrifugă (Romanian) comes from Romanian centrifug, from French centrifuge, from French centré, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον, from Proto-Hellenic *kéntron, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom — pointed tool.

centrifugă (Romanian): centrifuge

Definitions

  1. centrifuge

Ancestry of “centrifugă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancentrifugcentrifugal
2Frenchcentrifugecentrifugal
3Frenchcentrépast participle of centrer; central; centralized
4Latincentrumcenter
5Ancient GreekκέντρονSomething with a sharp point: point, spike, spur;...
6Proto-Hellenic*kéntron—
7Proto-Indo-European*ḱéntrompointed tool

Words derived from “centrifugă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom →Every word from Proto-Hellenic *kéntron →Every word from Ancient Greek κέντρον →