Where does “umiliațiune” come from?
umiliațiune (Romanian) comes from French humiliation, from Late Latin humiliatio, from Latin humilio, from Latin humilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
umiliațiune (Romanian): humility
Definitions
- humility
Ancestry of “umiliațiune”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | humiliation | A humiliation, active or passive |
| 2 | Late Latin | humiliatio | humiliation, humbling |
| 3 | Latin | humilio | I humble, I abase; I humiliate |
| 4 | Latin | humilis | low, lowly, small, slight; shallow; base, mean,... |
| 5 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |