Where does “controversă” come from?
controversă (Romanian) comes from French controverse, from Middle French controverse, from Old French controversie, from Latin contrōversia, from Latin contrōversus, from Latin versus, from Latin vertō, from Proto-Italic wertō — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.
controversă (Romanian): contest
Definitions
- contest
Ancestry of “controversă”, step by step
controversă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French controverse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | controverse | controversy; inflection of controverser: ##... |
| 2 | Middle French | controverse | — |
| 3 | Old French | controversie | — |
| 4 | Latin | contrōversia | a quarrel, dispute, debate |
| 5 | Latin | contrōversus | controversial, debatable, disputed |
| 6 | Latin | versus | turned, changed, having been turned; towards,... |
| 7 | Latin | vertō | to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | wertō | to turn |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |
via French controverser
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | controverser | to controvert |
| 2 | Latin | controversare | — |