Where does “vilegiatură” come from?
vilegiatură (Romanian) comes from French villégiature, from Italian villeggiatura, from Italian villeggiare, from Italian -eggiare, from Latin -izāre, from Ancient Greek -ίζειν, from Ancient Greek -ίζω, from Proto-Hellenic -íďďō — he, she.
vilegiatură (Romanian): holiday
Definitions
- holiday
Ancestry of “vilegiatură”, step by step
vilegiatură traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French villégiature
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | villégiature | holiday; holiday home; first-person singular... |
| 2 | Italian | villeggiatura | a vacation in the countryside, on the seaside, or... |
| 3 | Italian | villeggiare | To holiday |
| 4 | Italian | -eggiare | Used to form verbs from adjectives or nouns |
| 5 | Latin | -izāre | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ίζειν | present active infinitive of -ίζω; -ize |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ίζω | Used to form verbs from nouns, adjectives and... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | -íďďō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -idyéti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via French villégiaturer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | villégiaturer | — |