Where the Romanian word “flacără” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. flăcări):
Lat. *flaccula (= facula).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. flacăre):
Lat. *flaccula (= facula).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl. flacări):
Lat. *flaccula (= facula).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin facula
- In film dialogue
- 28 times per million words · number 2,027 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 143 72 83 127 93 - Swap in a synonym
- arde (Inherited Latin), căldură (Inherited Latin), pasiune (French), pară (Inherited Latin), strălucire (Made in Romanian), flamă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card