Where does “flagrant” come from?
flagrant (Romanian) comes from French flagrant, from Latin flagrans, from Latin flāgrō, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂g- — to smell.
flagrant (Romanian): flagrant
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Ancestry of “flagrant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | flagrant | flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident |
| 2 | Latin | flagrans | burning, flaming, on fire; Alternative form of... |
| 3 | Latin | flāgrō | to burn, blaze |
| 4 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |