Where does “fluorescență” come from?

fluorescență (Romanian) comes from French fluorescence, from English fluorescence, from English fluorspar, from English fluorite, from English -ite, from French -ité, from Latin -īta, from Ancient Greek -ίτης — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

fluorescență (Romanian): fluorescence

Definitions

  1. fluorescence

Ancestry of “fluorescență”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfluorescencefluorescence
2EnglishfluorescenceThe emission of light by a material when...
3EnglishfluorsparA halide mineral composed of calcium fluoride
4EnglishfluoriteA widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid
5English-iteUsed to form nouns denoting followers or...
6French-itéAlternative form of -té, giving a quality or...
7Latin-īta
8Ancient Greek-ίτηςSuffix forming a masculine noun: one connected...
9Ancient Greekπολῑ́τηςcitizen
10Ancient Greek-τηςForms nouns representing a state of being; Added...
11Proto-Hellenic-tāts
12Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
13Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
14Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós