Where does “spadă” come from?
spadă (Romanian) comes from Italian spada, from Italian spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη, from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-.
spadă (Romanian): sword
Ancestry of “spadă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | spada | sword; épée; spades |
| 2 | Italian | spata | spathe |
| 3 | Latin | spatha | spatula, spattle; spatha; a long, two-edged,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | σπάθη | any broad blade, of wood or metal |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sph₂-dʰ- | — |