Where the Romanian word “ceață” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. caecia (< caecus "orb").
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Late Latin caecia ← Latin caecus ← Proto-Italic kaikos ← Proto-Indo-European kéh₂ikos
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,124 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 42 46 45 75 50 - Swap in a synonym
- negură (Inherited Latin), brumă (Inherited Latin), pâclă (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card