Where does “invectivă” come from?
invectivă (Romanian) comes from French invective, from Medieval Latin invectiva, from Latin invectīvus, from Latin invectus, from Latin invehō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
invectivă (Romanian): invective
Definitions
- invective
Ancestry of “invectivă”, step by step
invectivă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French invective
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | invective | invective; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | invectiva | — |
| 3 | Latin | invectīvus | reviling |
| 4 | Latin | invectus | carried into |
| 5 | Latin | invehō | to carry, bear, convey into, introduce, bring in, bring upon |
| 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 invectiver
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | invectiver | to insult, shout abuse |