Where the Romanian word “genunchi” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Lat. genuc(u)lum (= geniculum).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '96 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Lat. genuc(u)lum (= geniculum).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '96 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Late Latin genuculum ← Latin geniculum ← Proto-Indo-European ǵónu
- In film dialogue
- 42 times per million words · number 1,505 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 7.7 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 62 81 112 131 121 - Swap in a synonym
- strâns (Made in Romanian), ghemuit (Made in Romanian), rotulă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card