Where does “eșantionaj” come from?
eșantionaj (Romanian) comes from French échantillonnage, from French échantillonner, from French échantillon, from Old French eschandillon, from Old French eschandiller, from Latin scandaculum, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō — to jump up, ascend.
eșantionaj (Romanian): sampling
Definitions
- sampling
Ancestry of “eșantionaj”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | échantillonnage | sampling |
| 2 | French | échantillonner | to sample, take a sample |
| 3 | French | échantillon | sample, extract |
| 4 | Old French | eschandillon | standard |
| 5 | Old French | eschandiller | to verify the measures of merchants |
| 6 | Latin | scandaculum | ladder |
| 7 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 8 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |