Where does “extorca” come from?

extorca (Romanian) comes from French extorquer, from Latin extorquēre, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.

extorca (Romanian): to extort

Definitions

  1. to extort

Ancestry of “extorca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchextorquerto extort
2Latinextorquēre—
3Latintorqueōto spin, whirl, twirl, turn, cause to revolve
4Proto-Indo-Europeanterkʷ-to turn, spin

Words derived from “extorca”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- →Every word from Latin torqueō →Every word from Latin extorquēre →