Where does “maladresă” come from?
maladresă (Romanian) comes from French maladresse, from French maladroit, from French adroit, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus — in.
maladresă (Romanian): clumsiness
Definitions
- clumsiness
Ancestry of “maladresă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | maladresse | clumsiness; tactlessness; awkwardness |
| 2 | French | maladroit | awkward; clumsy; maladroit |
| 3 | French | adroit | skilful, apt, skilled |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |