Where the Romanian word “apăsa” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *appensare.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin penso
- In film dialogue
- 51 times per million words · number 1,303 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 6.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 106 57 83 114 99 - Swap in a synonym
- sublinia (Made in Romanian), presa (French), chinui (Made in Romanian), accentua (French), copleși (Inherited Latin), înăbuși (Made in Romanian), asupri (Made in Romanian), oprima (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card