Where the Romanian word “cap” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Lat. caput, (II) după fr. chef (< lat. caput).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Lat. caput, (II) după fr. chef (< lat. caput).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl. -uri):
Din fr. cap.
→ French · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Late Latin capus ← Latin caput ← Proto-Italic kaput ← Proto-Indo-European kauput-
- In film dialogue
- 483 times per million words · number 223 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 193 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 1,028 1,372 1,267 1,076 976 - Swap in a synonym
- tot (Inherited Latin), om (Inherited Latin), uita (Inherited Latin), viață (Inherited Latin), niciodată (Made in Romanian), persoană (Learned Latin), termina (French), mod (Learned Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card