Where does “pătrărică” come from?
pătrărică (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 “pătrărică”, 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 |