Where does “prealuminat” come from?
prealuminat (Romanian) comes from Romanian luminat, from Romanian lumină, from Latin lūmināre, from Latin lūmen, from English -escence, from Latin -escens, from Latin -esco, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
prealuminat (Romanian): shining
Definitions
- shining
Ancestry of “prealuminat”, step by step
prealuminat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian luminat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | luminat | lighting |
| 2 | Romanian | lumină | light |
| 3 | Latin | lūmināre | That which gives light; enlightener |
| 4 | Latin | lūmen | light, source of light |
| 5 | English | -escence | a specified process or state |
| 6 | Latin | -escens | — |
| 7 | Latin | -esco | Forms verbs from adjectives meaning "become " |
| 8 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via Romanian prea
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | prea | too |
| 2 | Old Church Slavonic | прѣ- | over |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | per- | over-; re- |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | pro- | pro-, for-, through |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | *pro | for |
| 6 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *pra | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pró | toward, leading to |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |