Where does “flexibil” come from?
flexibil (Romanian) comes from French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
flexibil (Romanian): flexible
Definitions
- flexible
Ancestry of “flexibil”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | flexible | flexible |
| 2 | Latin | flexibilis | flexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,... |
| 3 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |