Where the Romanian word “ieftin” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. efthinós.
→ Greek · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Neighbouring Slavic languages (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Bulgarian е́втин ← Greek φτηνός ← Byzantine Greek εὐθηνός
- In film dialogue
- 36 times per million words · number 1,690 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 15 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 17 20 29 30 36 - Swap in a synonym
- comun (French), jos (Inherited Latin), mic (Inherited Latin), scăzut (Made in Romanian), convenabil (French), banal (French), avantajos (French), trivial (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
sigur, ortodox, măcar, stradă, septembrie, rest, englez, scop, titlu, bătălie, lipsi, poet