Where does “impaciență” come from?
impaciență (Romanian) comes from French impatience, from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia, from Latin impatiēns, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
impaciență (Romanian): impatience (quality of being impatient)
Definitions
- impatience (quality of being impatient)
Ancestry of “impaciență”, step by step
impaciență traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French impatience
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | impatience | impatience |
| 2 | Old French | impacience | — |
| 3 | Latin | impatientia | impatience; impassivity |
| 4 | Latin | impatiēns | that cannot bear; avoiding, fleeing |
| 5 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via French impatienter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | impatienter | to make, become impatient |
| 2 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 4 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |