Where the Romanian word “damă” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. dame, it. dama.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French dame
- In film dialogue
- 11 times per million words · number 3,911 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 9.4 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 182 165 50 29 19 - Swap in a synonym
- doamnă (Inherited Latin), soție (Made in Romanian), regină (Learned Latin), târfă (Unknown origin), nevastă (Old Slavic), curvă (Old Slavic), prostituată (French), madamă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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