Where does “microfișă” come from?

microfișă (Romanian) comes from French microfiche, from French fiche, from French ficher, from Old French fichier, from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.

microfișă (Romanian): microfiche

Definitions

  1. microfiche

Ancestry of “microfișă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmicrofichemicrofiche
2Frenchfichecard; plug; first-person singular present...
3Frenchficherto plug in; to drive something in by its point,...
4Old Frenchfichierto pierce
5Vulgar Latin*fīgicāre—
6Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
7Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten
Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō →