Where does “circula” come from?
circula (Romanian) comes from French circuler, from Latin circulāre, from Latin circulari, from Latin circulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
circula (Romanian): to circulate
Definitions
- to circulate
Ancestry of “circula”, step by step
circula traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French circuler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | circuler | To circulate; To go by, to get around |
| 2 | Latin | circulāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | circulari | dative masculine singular of circulāris; dative... |
| 4 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |