Where does “curcubeu” come from?

curcubeu (Romanian) comes from Latin circus bibit, from Latin bibere, from Latin bibō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

curcubeu (Romanian): rainbow

Definitions

  1. rainbow

Ancestry of “curcubeu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincircus bibit—
2Latinbiberethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
3Latinbibōto drink
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “curcubeu”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →