Where does “chetă” come from?

chetă (Romanian) comes from French quête, from Middle French queste, from Old French queste, from Latin quaesta, from Latin quaesita, from Latin quaesitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

chetă (Romanian): fundraising

Definitions

  1. fundraising

Ancestry of “chetă”, step by step

chetă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French quête

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquêtequest, search
2Middle Frenchquestequest
3Old Frenchquestesearch; act, instance of searching
4Latinquaestatribute, tax, inquiry, search
5Latinquaesitanominative feminine singular of quaesītus;...
6Latinquaesitussought for, having been sought for; asked, having...
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via French quêter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquêterto search for; to look for; to beg
2Old Frenchquesterto search for; to look for; to pursue; to follow;...
3Latinquaestāre
4Latinquaestusgain, acquisition, profit, advantage; occupation,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus