Where does “dificultos” come from?
dificultos (Romanian) comes from French difficultueux, from French difficulté, from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō.
dificultos (Romanian): difficult, problematic
Definitions
- difficult, problematic
Ancestry of “dificultos”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | difficultueux | peevish, who starts difficulties; problematic |
| 2 | French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 3 | Middle French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 4 | Old French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 5 | Latin | difficultas | difficulty, distress, trouble, hardship |
| 6 | Latin | difficilis | difficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,... |
| 7 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |