Where does “tabletă” come from?
tabletă (Romanian) comes from French tablette, from Old French tablete, from Old French -eté, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
tabletă (Romanian): tablet
Definitions
- tablet
Ancestry of “tabletă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tablette | tablet; bar |
| 2 | Old French | tablete | small table; a board to be written on; tablet |
| 3 | Old French | -eté | variant of -té |
| 4 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |