Where does “spărtură” come from?
spărtură (Romanian) comes from Romanian ură, from Latin ōrō, from Latin ōs, from Proto-Italic ōs, from Proto-Indo-European h₃ésth₁ — bone.
spărtură (Romanian): breach, break, rupture, rift
Definitions
- breach, break, rupture, rift
Ancestry of “spărtură”, step by step
spărtură traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian ură
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ură | hate, hatred |
| 2 | Latin | ōrō | to orate, deliver a speech publicly |
| 3 | Latin | ōs | mouth |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | ōs | mouth |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ésth₁ | bone |
via Romanian spart
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | spart | past participle of sparge; broken, fractured,... |
| 2 | Romanian | sparge | to break, burst, shatter, snap; to destroy, crush |
| 3 | Latin | spargō | to scatter, strew, sprinkle, sparkle |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pregʰ- | to scatter, to jerk |