Where does “vid” come from?

vid (Romanian) comes from French vide, from Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, from Latin vacuus, from Latin -uus, from Proto-Italic *-wos, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.

vid (Romanian): empty; void, vacuum

Definitions

  1. empty; void, vacuum

Ancestry of “vid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvideempty; devoid; blank
2Old Frenchvuitempty
3Vulgar Latin*vocitum—
4Latinvacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,...
5Latin-uusforms adjectives on verbal stems
6Proto-Italic*-wos—
7Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wós →Every word from Latin -uus →Every word from Latin vacuus →