Where the Romanian word “căpitan” comes from
From Italian.
- DEX ’98 says
Din it. capitano, rus. kapitan. Cf. magh. kapitány.
→ Italian · DEX '98- In film dialogue
- 252 times per million words · number 381 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 56 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 172 184 222 186 141 - Swap in a synonym
- șef (French), comandant (French), conducător (Made in Romanian), căpetenie (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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