Where the Romanian word “duzină” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din ngr. duzina. Cf. it. dozzina, fr. douzaine.
→ Greek · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Din ngr. duzina. Cf. it. dozzina, fr. douzaine.
→ Greek · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek ντουζίνα ← nap duzzina ← oc dotzena ← French douzaine ← Vulgar Latin
- In film dialogue
- 13 times per million words · number 3,455 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3.1 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 15 7.2 4.5 15 11 - Swap in a synonym
- prost (Old Slavic), mediocru (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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