Etymology Explorer › RomanianWhere does “scânteie” come from? scânteie (Romanian) comes from Latin scantilia, from Latin scintilla, from Proto-Indo-European ski-nto-, from Proto-Indo-European skey-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.
scânteie (Romanian): spark; sparkle, glint, gleam; scintilla
Definitions spark; sparkle, glint, gleam; scintilla Ancestry of “scânteie”, step by step scânteie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin scantilia Step Language Word Meaning 1 Latin scantilia — 2 Latin scintilla spark; glimmer 3 Proto-Indo-European ski-nto- — 4 Proto-Indo-European skey- to split, to dissect 5 Proto-Indo-European sek- to cut, cut off, sever
via Latin scintillō Step Language Word Meaning 1 Latin scintillō to scintillate, sparkle 2 Latin -ō suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs 3 Proto-Indo-European -ō Derives nouns from roots
Words derived from “scânteie”