Where does “optimista” come from?
optimista (Tagalog) comes from Spanish optimista, from French optimiste, from French optimisme, from Latin optimus, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen, from Latin ob- — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
optimista (Tagalog): optimist
Definitions
- optimist
Ancestry of “optimista”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | optimista | optimistic, upbeat; optimistic, bullish; optimist |
| 2 | French | optimiste | optimist; optimistic |
| 3 | French | optimisme | optimism |
| 4 | Latin | optimus | best; very good |
| 5 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 6 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 7 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 8 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 9 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |