Where the Romanian word “des” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Lat. densus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin dēnsus ← Proto-Indo-European dens-
- In film dialogue
- 59 times per million words · number 1,176 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 113 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 160 115 169 192 102 - Swap in a synonym
- frecvent (Learned Latin), strâns (Made in Romanian), repede (Inherited Latin), repetat (Made in Romanian), bătut (Made in Romanian), dens (French), compact (French), iute (Old Slavic)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- densus → dens
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card