Where does “defecțiune” come from?
defecțiune (Romanian) comes from Romanian defect, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
defecțiune (Romanian): failure
Definitions
- failure
Ancestry of “defecțiune”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | defect | defective |
| 2 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 3 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |