Where does “mapografie” come from?
mapografie (Romanian) comes from Romanian geografie, from French géographie, from Latin geōgraphia, from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία, from Ancient Greek γεωγράφος, from Ancient Greek γεω-, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
mapografie (Romanian): cartography
Definitions
- cartography
Ancestry of “mapografie”, step by step
mapografie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian geografie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | geografie | geography |
| 2 | French | géographie | geography |
| 3 | Latin | geōgraphia | geography |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | γεωγραφία | a description of the earth |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γεωγράφος | geographer |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | γεω- | earth; earth- |
| 7 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Romanian mapă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | mapă | folder, file, portfolio |
| 2 | English | map | A visual representation of an area, whether real... |
| 3 | Middle English | mappemounde | — |
| 4 | Old French | mapamonde | world map |
| 5 | Latin | mundus | clean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | mewH- | to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet |