Where the Romanian word “circ” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. cirque, lat. circus.
→ French · DEX '98- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,187 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 9.0 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 6.6 0.5 3.3 10.0 12 - Swap in a synonym
- chiuvetă (French), căldare (Inherited Latin)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- circus → cerc
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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