Where does “violență” come from?
violență (Romanian) comes from French violenter, from French violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from Latin -entus, from Latin cruentus, from Latin cruor, from Proto-Indo-European krewh₂- — blood outside the body.
violență (Romanian): violence
Ancestry of “violență”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | violenter | to subject to violence, commit violence upon; to... |
| 2 | French | violent | violent; inflection of violer:
## third-person... |
| 3 | Old French | violent | violent |
| 4 | Latin | violentus | forcible, violent, vehement; impetuous;... |
| 5 | Latin | -entus | adjective-forming suffix meaning abounding in,... |
| 6 | Latin | cruentus | bloody in its various senses, "particularly:" |
| 7 | Latin | cruor | blood, gore; murder, bloodshed |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | krewh₂- | blood outside the body |