Where does “ploieșteancă” come from?
ploieșteancă (Romanian) comes from Romanian ploieștean, from Romanian Ploiești, from Romanian ploaie, from Vulgar Latin plovia, from Latin pluvia, from Latin pluvius, from Latin pluit, from Proto-Italic plowō.
Ancestry of “ploieșteancă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ploieștean | — |
| 2 | Romanian | Ploiești | — |
| 3 | Romanian | ploaie | rain |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | plovia | — |
| 5 | Latin | pluvia | rain; a shower; feminine nominative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | pluvius | rainy, bringing rain; The inner court of a... |
| 7 | Latin | pluit | It rains; it is raining |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | plowō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pléweti | — |