Where the Romanian word “fir” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. filum.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin fīlum ← Proto-Indo-European gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-
- In film dialogue
- 86 times per million words · number 856 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 24 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 80 87 107 127 98 - Swap in a synonym
- bob (Old Slavic), pic (Made in Romanian), fărâmă (Unknown origin), grăunte (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card