Where does “scobitoare” come from?
scobitoare (Romanian) comes from Romanian scobi, from Romanian scoabă, from Old Church Slavonic скоба, from Proto-Slavic skoba, from Portuguese escovar, from Latin scōpāre, from Latin scōpa, from Proto-Italic *skōpā.
scobitoare (Romanian): toothpick
Ancestry of “scobitoare”, step by step