Where does “contorsionare” come from?
contorsionare (Romanian) comes from Romanian contorsiona, from French contorsionner, from French contorsion, from Latin contortio, from Latin contortus, from Latin contorqueō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — resin, gum; to say, speak.
contorsionare (Romanian): contortion
Definitions
- contortion
Ancestry of “contorsionare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | contorsiona | to contort |
| 2 | French | contorsionner | to contort |
| 3 | French | contorsion | contortion |
| 4 | Latin | contortio | intricacy |
| 5 | Latin | contortus | contorted; intricate, involved; brandished |
| 6 | Latin | contorqueō | to turn, twist, swing or whirl (together); contort |
| 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 |