Where does “tată vitreg” come from?
tată vitreg (Romanian) comes from Romanian tată, from Latin tata, from Proto-Indo-European tatás.
tată vitreg (Romanian): stepfather
Ancestry of “tată vitreg”, step by step
tată vitreg traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian tată
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | tată | father |
| 2 | Latin | tata | dad, daddy, a term used by children for their... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | tatás | — |
via Romanian vitreg
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | vitreg | step- (as in not a blood relative but related through the marriage of a parent), half |
| 2 | Latin | vitricus | stepfather |