Where the Romanian word “acest” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *ecce-istu, ecce-ista.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin eccum iste ← Latin [[eccum]] + [[iste]]
- In film dialogue
- 2,726 times per million words · number 51 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3,915 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 3,770 4,330 3,768 3,249 4,072 - Swap in a synonym
- prezent (Learned Latin), ăst (Inherited Latin), curent (French), ist (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card