Where does “lapidă” come from?
lapidă (Romanian) comes from French lapider, from Latin lapidō, from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.
lapidă (Romanian): tombstone
Definitions
- tombstone
Ancestry of “lapidă”, step by step
lapidă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French lapider
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | lapider | to stone; to lapidate; to attack verbally |
| 2 | Latin | lapidō | to stone, throw stones at |
| 3 | Latin | lapis | a stone; a milestone; a boundary stone |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *lapets | stone |
via Italian lapida
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | lapida | third-person singular present indicative of... |