Where does “ciurătură” come from?
ciurătură (Romanian) comes from Romanian ciura, from Romanian ciur, from Vulgar Latin cibrum, from Latin crībrum, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.
ciurătură (Romanian): a kind of embroidery
Definitions
- a kind of embroidery
Ancestry of “ciurătură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ciura | to sift (with a sieve), sieve, pass through a sieve |
| 2 | Romanian | ciur | sieve, sifter, strainer, screen, tammy, riddle |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | cibrum | — |
| 4 | Latin | crībrum | sieve, riddle, winnow |
| 5 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 6 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 7 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |