Where does “curcubiță” come from?

curcubiță (Romanian) comes from Romanian curcubeu, 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.

curcubiță (Romanian): rainbow

Definitions

  1. rainbow

Ancestry of “curcubiță”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancurcubeurainbow
2Latincircus bibit
3Latinbiberethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
4Latinbibōto drink
5Latin-ilis-ile
6Proto-Italic-elis
7Proto-Indo-European-elis
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós