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Where does “vizitare” come from?

vizitare (Romanian) comes from Romanian vizita, from French visite, from French visiter, from Middle French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

vizitare (Romanian): visitation; visit

Definitions

  1. visitation; visit

Ancestry of “vizitare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianvizitato visit
2Frenchvisitevisit; third-person singular present indicative...
3Frenchvisiterto visit
4Middle Frenchvisiterto visit
5Latinvīsitō—
6Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
7Latin-tō—
8Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
9Proto-Italic-tus—
10Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →