Where does “curbimetru” come from?
curbimetru (Romanian) comes from Romanian curbă, from French courber, from Latin curvo, from Latin curvus, from Proto-Italic korwos, from Proto-Indo-European ḱorh₂wós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥- — army.
curbimetru (Romanian): curvimeter
Definitions
- curvimeter
Ancestry of “curbimetru”, step by step
curbimetru traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian curbă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | curbă | curve |
| 2 | French | courber | to bend; to bow, to bow down, to bend down, to... |
| 3 | Latin | curvo | I crook, bend, bow, curve; dative/ablative... |
| 4 | Latin | curvus | bent, crooked, curved |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | korwos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱorh₂wós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
via Romanian metru
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | metru | metre |
| 2 | French | mètre | metre/meter; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Latin | metrum | a measure |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |