Where does “suprafață” come from?

suprafață (Romanian) comes from French surface, from Latin superficiēs, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.

suprafață (Romanian): surface; area

Definitions

  1. surface; area

Ancestry of “suprafață”, step by step

suprafață traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French surface

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsurfacesurface
2Latinsuperficiēsthe top, surface
3Latinfaciēsmake, form, shape, figure, configuration
4Latinfaciōto do
5Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
6Latin-tōriusory
7Latin-tor-er
8Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
9Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
10Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

via Romanian fată

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianfatăgirl; daughter
2Latinfētōto bring forth, breed
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -torium →Every word from Latin -tor →