Where the Romanian word “agăța” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *accaptiare (< captiare "a prinde").
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin accaptiāre ← Latin captus
- In film dialogue
- 30 times per million words · number 1,949 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3.1 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 11 21 44 22 - Swap in a synonym
- prinde (Inherited Latin), apuca (Inherited Latin), spânzura (Inherited Latin), atârna (Made in Romanian), suspenda (French), acosta (French), anina (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card