Where does “foiletonistic” come from?
foiletonistic (Romanian) comes from Romanian foiletonist, from French feuilletoniste, from French feuilleton, from French feuillet, from Old French feuil, from Latin folia, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom.
foiletonistic (Romanian): feuilletonistic
Definitions
- feuilletonistic
Ancestry of “foiletonistic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | foiletonist | feuilletonist |
| 2 | French | feuilletoniste | feuilletonist |
| 3 | French | feuilleton | soap opera |
| 4 | French | feuillet | page, leaf; layer; omasum, manyplies |
| 5 | Old French | feuil | — |
| 6 | Latin | folia | nominative plural of folium; accusative plural of... |
| 7 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |