Where does “secundar” come from?
secundar (Romanian) comes from Italian secondario, from French secondaire, from Latin secundārius, from Latin secundus, from Latin sequor, from Proto-Italic sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European sékʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European sekʷ- — to follow; to see; to say.
secundar (Romanian): secondary
Definitions
- secondary
Ancestry of “secundar”, step by step
secundar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian secondario
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | secondario | secondary |
| 2 | French | secondaire | secondary |
| 3 | Latin | secundārius | second-class, second-rate, of inferior quality |
| 4 | Latin | secundus | second, the ordinal number after prīmus and... |
| 5 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |
via Romanian secundă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | secundă | second |
| 2 | French | seconde | feminine singular of second; second |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | secunda | inflection of secundus: ## feminine... |
| 4 | Latin | secunda pars minuta | second diminished part |