Where the Romanian word “cenușă” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *cinusia (< cinis).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin cinusia ← Latin cinus ← Proto-Indo-European ken-
- In film dialogue
- 16 times per million words · number 3,054 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 69 27 38 38 45 - Swap in a synonym
- pustii (Made in Romanian), scrum (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card