Where the Romanian word “foaie” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. folia (pl., devenit sg., al lui folium), (4) după fr. feuille.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Late Latin folia ← Latin folium ← Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom
- In film dialogue
- 11 times per million words · number 3,857 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 18 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 84 91 114 96 63 - Swap in a synonym
- revistă (Italian), act (Learned Latin), ziar (Made in Romanian), frunză (Inherited Latin), fustă (Greek), petală (French), filă (Greek), sepală (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card