Where does “prohibi” come from?
prohibi (Romanian) comes from French prohiber, from Latin prohibeō, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr, from Proto-Indo-European h₂reh₁-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
prohibi (Romanian): to prohibit
Definitions
- to prohibit
Ancestry of “prohibi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | prohiber | to prohibit (to proscribe) |
| 2 | Latin | prohibeō | to hold back or before, keep or ward off, restrain; avert; prevent, hinder |
| 3 | Latin | prō | for |
| 4 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 5 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |