Where the Romanian word “insista” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. insister, lat. insistere.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French insister
- In film dialogue
- 43 times per million words · number 1,475 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 21 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 2.0 12 26 51 - Swap in a synonym
- cere (Inherited Latin), sublinia (Made in Romanian), accentua (French), persista (French), reliefa (Made in Romanian), persevera (French), stărui (Neighbouring Slavic languages)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
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