Where does “curiozitate” come from?
curiozitate (Romanian) comes from French curiosité, from Latin curiositas, from German kurios, from Latin curiosus, from Latin -osus, from Old Latin -osos, from Latin ont-to-s, from Latin -o-wont-to-s.
curiozitate (Romanian): curiosity
Ancestry of “curiozitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | curiosité | curiosity; oddity, curious fact |
| 2 | Latin | curiositas | curiosity, inquisitiveness |
| 3 | German | kurios | — |
| 4 | Latin | curiosus | Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted;... |
| 5 | Latin | -osus | -ose, -ous; full of, overly, prone to |
| 6 | Old Latin | -osos | accusative masculine plural of -ōsus |
| 7 | Latin | ont-to-s | — |
| 8 | Latin | -o-wont-to-s | — |