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Where does “infirmieră” come from?

infirmieră (Romanian) comes from Romanian infirmier, from French infirmier, from Latin īnfirmus, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

infirmieră (Romanian): female equivalent of infirmier

Definitions

  1. female equivalent of infirmier

Ancestry of “infirmieră”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianinfirmiernurse
2Frenchinfirmiernurse; nursing
3Latinīnfirmus—
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →