Where does “scurtcircuita” come from?
scurtcircuita (Romanian) comes from Romanian scurtcircuit, from Romanian circuit, from French circuit, from Latin circuitus, from Latin circumeō, from Latin eō, from Proto-Italic eō, from Proto-Italic ejō — to go.
scurtcircuita (Romanian): to short circuit
Definitions
- to short circuit
Ancestry of “scurtcircuita”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | scurtcircuit | short circuit |
| 2 | Romanian | circuit | circuit |
| 3 | French | circuit | circuit; tour |
| 4 | Latin | circuitus | patrol; circuit; revolution |
| 5 | Latin | circumeō | to go, travel or march around; to circulate |
| 6 | Latin | eō | to go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.) |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |