Where does “lăcustă” come from?

lăcustă (Romanian) comes from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, from Proto-Indo-European lēk- — string, twig, tendril; leg, the main muscle of...

lăcustă (Romanian): locust; grasshopper

Definitions

  1. locust; grasshopper

Ancestry of “lăcustă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinlacustalocust, grasshopper; crustacean, marine...
2Latinlocustalocust, grasshopper; crustacean, marine...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanlēk-string, twig, tendril; leg, the main muscle of...

Words derived from “lăcustă”

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