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Where does “echitate” come from?

echitate (Romanian) comes from French équité, from Latin aequitas, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

echitate (Romanian): equity; impartiality, fairness; uprighteousness

Definitions

  1. equity; impartiality, fairness; uprighteousness

Ancestry of “echitate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchéquitéequity
2Latinaequitasuniformity, evenness, equalness; equality,...
3Latin-tās—
4Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
5Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
6Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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