Where does “extern” come from?
extern (Romanian) comes from French externe, from Latin externus, from Latin exter, from Proto-Italic *eksteros.
extern (Romanian): external
Ancestry of “extern”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | externe | external |
| 2 | Latin | externus | outward, external; foreign, alien, strange |
| 3 | Latin | exter | On the outside, outward, external, outer; Of... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *eksteros | — |