Where does “contramăsură” come from?

contramăsură (Romanian) comes from Romanian măsură, from Latin mēnsūra, from Latin mētior, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.

contramăsură (Romanian): countermeasure

Definitions

  1. countermeasure

Ancestry of “contramăsură”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianmăsurămeasure; measurement
2Latinmēnsūrameasure; a measuring
3Latinmētiorto measure or estimate
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₁-to measure
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- →Every word from Latin mētior →Every word from Latin mēnsūra →