Where does “ocazionalitate” come from?
ocazionalitate (Romanian) comes from Italian occasionalità, from Italian occasionale, from Italian occasione, from Russian оказия, from Polish okazja, from Latin occasio, from Latin occasus, from Latin occidō — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
ocazionalitate (Romanian): occasionality
Definitions
- occasionality
Ancestry of “ocazionalitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | occasionalità | casualness |
| 2 | Italian | occasionale | occasional, chance; casual, odd |
| 3 | Italian | occasione | opportunity, chance, occasion, scope;... |
| 4 | Russian | оказия | opportunity; unexpected event |
| 5 | Polish | okazja | chance, occasion, opportunity |
| 6 | Latin | occasio | occasion, opportunity; kairos, the right time,... |
| 7 | Latin | occasus | setting; west; western |
| 8 | Latin | occidō | to fall down |
| 9 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 10 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |