Where does “mintuță” come from?

mintuță (Romanian) comes from Romanian -uță, from Romanian -uț, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Ancestry of “mintuță”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-uțăfemale equivalent of -uț
2Romanian-uțForms masculine diminutives of nouns and...
3Latin-utus—
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Romanian -uță →