Where does “revistă” come from?
revistă (Romanian) comes from Italian rivista, from Portuguese revista, from Portuguese revistar, from Latin revisitare, from Latin vīsitō, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
revistă (Romanian): magazine
Ancestry of “revistă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | rivista | magazine; review, muster or; feminine singular... |
| 2 | Portuguese | revista | magazine; search; review, inspection |
| 3 | Portuguese | revistar | search, seek |
| 4 | Latin | revisitare | — |
| 5 | Latin | vīsitō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 7 | Latin | -tō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |