Where does “indigență” come from?
indigență (Romanian) comes from French indigence, from Old French indigence, from Latin indigentia, from Latin indigentem, from Latin indigēre, from Latin indu, from Old Latin endo, from Proto-Indo-European h₁n̥dó — in.
indigență (Romanian): indigence
Definitions
- indigence
Ancestry of “indigență”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | indigence | indigence |
| 2 | Old French | indigence | indigence poverty; lacking |
| 3 | Latin | indigentia | need, want, lack, indigence; nominative neuter... |
| 4 | Latin | indigentem | accusative masculine singular of indigēns;... |
| 5 | Latin | indigēre | — |
| 6 | Latin | indu | Archaic form of in; in, within |
| 7 | Old Latin | endo | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁n̥dó | into, inside |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |