Where the Romanian word “bătălie” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. batália. Cf. it. battaglia.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek μπατάλια ← Italian battaglia ← Late Latin battualia
- In film dialogue
- 32 times per million words · number 1,857 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 207 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 69 148 45 26 21 - Swap in a synonym
- război (Old Slavic), luptă (Inherited Latin), bătaie (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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