Where does “debandadă” come from?
debandadă (Romanian) comes from French débandade, from French débander, from French bander, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá — to soften, to melt.
debandadă (Romanian): disarray, confusion, scurry, rowdiness
Definitions
- disarray, confusion, scurry, rowdiness
Ancestry of “debandadă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | débandade | stampede, rush; disarray |
| 2 | French | débander | to unfasten a bandage; to remove a blindfold; to... |
| 3 | French | bander | to bandage; to flex, tighten the muscles, strain,... |
| 4 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 5 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 6 | Italian | là | there |
| 7 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 8 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 9 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 10 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 11 | Hungarian | moll | minor |
| 12 | German | Moll | minor |
| 13 | Medieval Latin | molle | — |
| 14 | Latin | mollis | soft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible,... |
| 15 | Latin | molduis | — |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | moldus | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | *ml̥dus | soft, weak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meld- | to soften, to melt |