Where does “eglantină” come from?
eglantină (Romanian) comes from French églantine, from Latin aculeus, from Latin -uleus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
eglantină (Romanian): eglantine, dog rose
Definitions
- eglantine, dog rose
Ancestry of “eglantină”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | églantine | eglantine, dog rose |
| 2 | Latin | aculeus | sting, stinger; spine, thorn |
| 3 | Latin | -uleus | suffix forming masculine diminutives |
| 4 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |