Where the Romanian word “ciumă” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. cyma "umflătură".
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin cyma ← Ancient Greek κῦμα
- In film dialogue
- 6.9 times per million words · number 5,120 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 26 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 37 18 11 16 6.9 - Swap in a synonym
- mizerie (Learned Latin), fascism (Italian), nenorocire (Made in Romanian), nazism (French), pacoste (Old Slavic), pestă (French), năpastă (Old Slavic), urgie (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card