Where does “teracotist” come from?
teracotist (Romanian) comes from Romanian teracotă, from Italian terracotta, from Italian cotta, from Italian cotto, from Latin cōctus, from Latin coactus, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn- — resin.
teracotist (Romanian): terracotta worker
Definitions
- terracotta worker
Ancestry of “teracotist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | teracotă | terracotta |
| 2 | Italian | terracotta | terracotta |
| 3 | Italian | cotta | feminine singular of cotto; surplice, cassock,... |
| 4 | Italian | cotto | cooked; smitten; past participle of cuocere |
| 5 | Latin | cōctus | cooked, having been cooked |
| 6 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 7 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |