Where does “exemplarnic” come from?
exemplarnic (Romanian) comes from Romanian exemplar, from French exemplaire, from Middle French exemplaire, from Old French essamplaire, from Latin exemplāris, from Latin exemplum, from Latin eximō, from Latin emo — to take; to distribute.
exemplarnic (Romanian): exemplary
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Ancestry of “exemplarnic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | exemplar | copy |
| 2 | French | exemplaire | copy; facsimile; example; sample; instance;... |
| 3 | Middle French | exemplaire | exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a... |
| 4 | Old French | essamplaire | example; model; role model |
| 5 | Latin | exemplāris | exemplary |
| 6 | Latin | exemplum | a sample; an example; a warning example, lesson,... |
| 7 | Latin | eximō | to take out, take away, remove or extract |
| 8 | Latin | emo | I buy, purchase; I acquire, procure |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | emō | to buy, to purchase |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁em- | to take; to distribute |