Where the Romanian word “îmbăta” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *imbibitare (<bibitus "beat").
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin imbibitāre ← Latin bibo
- In film dialogue
- 20 times per million words · number 2,594 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- under once per million
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 42 65 45 55 38 - Swap in a synonym
- înșela (Inherited Latin), încânta (Made in Romanian), tulbura (Inherited Latin), ameți (Inherited Latin), fascina (French), zăpăci (Unknown origin), amăgi (Inherited Latin), fermeca (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card