Where the Romanian word “albină” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. alvina "stup".
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin alvīna ← Latin alvus
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,079 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 22 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 62 45 24 22 13 - Swap in a synonym
- muscă (Inherited Latin), matcă (Neighbouring Slavic languages), viespe (Inherited Latin), bondar (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card