Where does “puricătură” come from?

puricătură (Romanian) comes from Romanian purica, from Latin pūlicāre, from Latin pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus- — flea.

puricătură (Romanian): a cleaning of fleas

Definitions

  1. a cleaning of fleas

Ancestry of “puricătură”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianpuricato clean of fleas; to examine very attentively
2Latinpūlicāre—
3Latinpūlexflea
4Proto-Indo-European*plus-flea
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *plus- →