Where the Romanian word “cărbune” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. carbo, -onis.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin carbōnem ← Proto-Indo-European ker
- In film dialogue
- 9.5 times per million words · number 4,222 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 41 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 20 31 34 39 31 - Swap in a synonym
- antrax (French), mangal (Turkish)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- carbo → carbon
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card