Where does “ezitare” come from?

ezitare (Romanian) comes from Romanian ezita, from French hésiter, from Latin haesitō, from Latin -tito, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

ezitare (Romanian): hesitation

Definitions

  1. hesitation

Ancestry of “ezitare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianezitato hesitate, waver; to vacillate, oscillate
2Frenchhésiterto hesitate
3Latinhaesitōto remain fixed in place
4Latin-titoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs
5Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
6Latin-tōForms here
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tusEvery word from Latin -tusEvery word from Latin -tō
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