Where does “prioritate” come from?

prioritate (Romanian) comes from French priorité, from Latin prioritas, from Latin prior, from Proto-Italic priōs, from Proto-Italic prijōs, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

prioritate (Romanian): priority

Definitions

  1. priority

Ancestry of “prioritate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchprioritépriority; right of way
2Latinprioritasprecedence, previousness in time
3Latinpriorformer, prior, previous; the first, the original;...
4Proto-Italicpriōsformer
5Proto-Italicprijōs
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Proto-Italic -jōsEvery word from Proto-Italic prijōs