Where does “chestură” come from?
chestură (Romanian) comes from French questure, from Latin quaestūra, from Latin quaestor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
chestură (Romanian): police headquarters
Definitions
- police headquarters
Ancestry of “chestură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | questure | quaestorship the office of a quaestor |
| 2 | Latin | quaestūra | quaestorship (office of a quaestor) |
| 3 | Latin | quaestor | quaestor |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |