Where the Romanian word “crocodil” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. crocodile, lat. crocodilus.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French crocodile ← Old French cocodril ← Medieval Latin cocodrillus ← Latin crocodilus ← Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος
- In film dialogue
- 8.3 times per million words · number 4,577 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 4.3 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 2.0 1.3 2.8 3.7
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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