Where does “pătrăriță” come from?
pătrăriță (Romanian) comes from Latin patrare, from Romanian pătrar, from Romanian patru, from Latin quadrātus, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto — and.
Ancestry of “pătrăriță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | patrare | present active infinitive of patrō; second-person... |
| 2 | Romanian | pătrar | quarter, fourth; quarter |
| 3 | Romanian | patru | four |
| 4 | Latin | quadrātus | square, squared, having been made square, made into a square shape |
| 5 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 6 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 7 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 8 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 9 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 10 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |