Where does “lăcătui” come from?
lăcătui (Romanian) comes from Romanian lacăt, from Hungarian lakat, from Italian lucchetto, from French loquet, from Anglo-Norman loc, from Old English loc, from Old English stede, from Proto-West Germanic stadi.
lăcătui (Romanian): to padlock
Definitions
- to padlock
Ancestry of “lăcătui”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | lacăt | padlock, lock |
| 2 | Hungarian | lakat | padlock, lock; causative of lakik: to have... |
| 3 | Italian | lucchetto | padlock; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 4 | French | loquet | latch |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | loc | lock |
| 6 | Old English | loc | lock; that by which anything is closed; an... |
| 7 | Old English | stede | place |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | stadi | place |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | stadiz | place, location |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | stéh₂tis | standing, position |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |