Where does “teribilist” come from?
teribilist (Romanian) comes from Romanian teribil, from French terrible, from Latin terribilis, from Latin terreō, from Proto-Indo-European tres-, from Proto-Indo-European ter-, from Italian termine, from Latin terminus — boundary, end.
teribilist (Romanian): eccentric
Definitions
- eccentric
Ancestry of “teribilist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | teribil | terrible |
| 2 | French | terrible | terrible; great, excellent |
| 3 | Latin | terribilis | frightful, dreadful, terrible, horrible |
| 4 | Latin | terreō | to frighten, terrify, alarm |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | tres- | to tremble |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 7 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 8 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |