Where does “foiletonist” come from?
foiletonist (Romanian) comes from French feuilletoniste, from French feuilleton, from French feuillet, from Old French feuil, from Latin folia, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
foiletonist (Romanian): feuilletonist
Definitions
- feuilletonist
Ancestry of “foiletonist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | feuilletoniste | feuilletonist |
| 2 | French | feuilleton | soap opera |
| 3 | French | feuillet | page, leaf; layer; omasum, manyplies |
| 4 | Old French | feuil | — |
| 5 | Latin | folia | nominative plural of folium; accusative plural of... |
| 6 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |