Where does “precum și” come from?
precum și (Romanian) comes from Romanian precum, from Romanian cum, from Late Latin quomo, from Latin quōmodo, from Latin quō, from Latin quī, from Latin -cumque, from Latin cumque — whale, sea monster; abyss.
precum și (Romanian): as well as
Ancestry of “precum și”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | precum | as |
| 2 | Romanian | cum | how; as, since, because |
| 3 | Late Latin | quomo | — |
| 4 | Latin | quōmodo | — |
| 5 | Latin | quō | — |
| 6 | Latin | quī | — |
| 7 | Latin | -cumque | Used to derive indefinite adjectives, adverbs and... |
| 8 | Latin | cumque | however, whenever, howsoever, whensoever |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |