Where the Romanian word “biserică” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. basilica.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin basilica ← Ancient Greek βασιλική
- In film dialogue
- 92 times per million words · number 800 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1,699 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 364 289 297 376 234 - Swap in a synonym
- nimeni (Inherited Latin), deloc (Made in Romanian), parohie (Learned Latin)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- basilica → bazilică
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card