Where does “scurtcircuitare” come from?
scurtcircuitare (Romanian) comes from Romanian scurtcircuita, from Romanian scurtcircuit, from Romanian circuit, from French circuit, from Latin circuitus, from Latin circumeō, from Latin eō, from Proto-Italic eō — to go.
scurtcircuitare (Romanian): short circuit
Definitions
- short circuit
Ancestry of “scurtcircuitare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | scurtcircuita | to short circuit |
| 2 | Romanian | scurtcircuit | short circuit |
| 3 | Romanian | circuit | circuit |
| 4 | French | circuit | circuit; tour |
| 5 | Latin | circuitus | patrol; circuit; revolution |
| 6 | Latin | circumeō | to go, travel or march around; to circulate |
| 7 | Latin | eō | to go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.) |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |