Where does “demitentă” come from?
demitentă (Romanian) comes from French demi-teinte, from French teinte, from Latin tincta, from Latin tingere, from Proto-Indo-European teng- — to think.
demitentă (Romanian): medium shade in a painting
Definitions
- medium shade in a painting
Ancestry of “demitentă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | demi-teinte | a medium shade, neither particularly light nor... |
| 2 | French | teinte | shade, tint; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Latin | tincta | nominative feminine singular of tīnctus;... |
| 4 | Latin | tingere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | teng- | to think |