Where the Romanian word “car” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Lat. carius (= caries).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Lat. carrus (cu unele sensuri noi după fr. char).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl -uri):
După engl. [typewriter] carriage, fr. chariot.
→ English · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin carrus ← cel-gau karros
- In film dialogue
- 6.8 times per million words · number 5,207 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 16 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 435 302 137 89 74 - Swap in a synonym
- mașină (French), mulțime (Made in Romanian), tren (French), grămadă (Old Slavic), tanc (French), locomotivă (French), dric (Hungarian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card