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Where does “criminologă” come from?

criminologă (Romanian) comes from Romanian criminolog, from French criminologue, from French criminologie, from French -ie, from Middle French -ie, from Old French -ie, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

criminologă (Romanian): female equivalent of criminolog

Definitions

  1. female equivalent of criminolog

Ancestry of “criminologă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancriminologcriminologist
2Frenchcriminologuecriminologist
3Frenchcriminologiecriminology
4French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
5Middle French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
6Old French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
7Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
8Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
9Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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