Where does “clasă” come from?
clasă (Romanian) comes from French classe, from Italian classe, from Spanish clase, from Portuguese classe, from German klasse, from Russian класс, from Latin classis, from Proto-Italic klāssis — to call, cry, summon.
clasă (Romanian): class
Definitions
- class
Ancestry of “clasă”, step by step
clasă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French classe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | classe | class, type, group; "Une classe de conscrits"... |
| 2 | Italian | classe | class; classroom; style |
| 3 | Spanish | clase | lecture; class; kind, sort, type |
| 4 | Portuguese | classe | class, kind; class; elegance; class |
| 5 | German | klasse | great, awesome |
| 6 | Russian | класс | class |
| 7 | Latin | classis | any one of the five divisions into which Servius... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | klāssis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kelh₁- | to call, cry, summon |
via French classer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | classer | to classify; to file |