Where the Romanian word “balenă” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. baleine, lat. balaena.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French baleine ← Latin balaena ← Ancient Greek φάλλαινα
- In film dialogue
- 17 times per million words · number 2,894 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.6 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 0.0 0.6 2.1 1.7 - Swap in a synonym
- chit (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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