Where does “intimare” come from?
intimare (Romanian) comes from Romanian intima, from French intimer, from Latin intimare, from Latin intimus, from Latin intus, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
intimare (Romanian): intimation
Definitions
- intimation
Ancestry of “intimare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | intima | to intimate |
| 2 | French | intimer | to tell, to notify with authority |
| 3 | Latin | intimare | present active infinitive of intimō;... |
| 4 | Latin | intimus | inmost; profound; most or very secret or intimate |
| 5 | Latin | intus | within, inside; at home |
| 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 |