Where the Romanian word “iad” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. jadŭ.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic адъ ← Ancient Greek ᾍδης
- In film dialogue
- 71 times per million words · number 1,007 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 7.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 202 64 62 47 20 - Swap in a synonym
- mizerie (Learned Latin), infern (Learned Latin), beznă (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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