Where does “metopă” come from?

metopă (Romanian) comes from French métope, from Latin metopa, from Ancient Greek μετόπη, from Ancient Greek μετά, from Proto-Indo-European meth₂, from Proto-Indo-European mé — in the middle of, near, by, around, with.

metopă (Romanian): metope

Definitions

  1. metope

Ancestry of “metopă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmétopemetope
2Latinmetopa
3Ancient Greekμετόπηmetope
4Ancient Greekμετάin the midst of, among, between, with; in common,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmeth₂with
6Proto-Indo-Europeanin the middle of, near, by, around, with
Every word from Proto-Indo-European