Where does “conchetă” come from?
conchetă (Romanian) comes from French conquête, from Middle French conqueste, from Old French conqueste, from Vulgar Latin conquista, from Latin conquisitus, from Latin conquirō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — resin, gum; to say, speak.
conchetă (Romanian): conquest
Definitions
- conquest
Ancestry of “conchetă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | conquête | conquest |
| 2 | Middle French | conqueste | conquest |
| 3 | Old French | conqueste | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | conquista | — |
| 5 | Latin | conquisitus | select, chosen; costly |
| 6 | Latin | conquirō | to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |