Where does “insultare” come from?
insultare (Romanian) comes from Romanian insulta, from French insulter, from Latin īnsultō, from Latin insilio, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
insultare (Romanian): insult
Definitions
- insult
Ancestry of “insultare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | insulta | to insult, offend |
| 2 | French | insulter | to insult |
| 3 | Latin | īnsultō | to spring, leap or jump at or upon |
| 4 | Latin | insilio | I leap upon or in; I bound |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |