Where does “cruciadă” come from?
cruciadă (Romanian) comes from French croisade, from Middle French croisade, from Old French croisade, from Old French crois, from Latin crux, from Proto-Italic *kruks, from Proto-Indo-European sḱer- — to caw, crow.
cruciadă (Romanian): crusade
Definitions
- crusade
Ancestry of “cruciadă”, step by step
cruciadă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French croisade
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | croisade | crusade |
| 2 | Middle French | croisade | crusade |
| 3 | Old French | croisade | — |
| 4 | Old French | crois | cross; crossroads |
| 5 | Latin | crux | wooden frame on which criminals were crucified,... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *kruks | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱer- | to caw, crow |
via Italian crociata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | crociata | crusade |
| 2 | Italian | -ata | Used with a stem to form the feminine singular... |
| 3 | Italian | -ato | Used with a stem to form the past participle of... |
| 4 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |