Where the Romanian word “leu” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Et. nec. Cf. lat. leo.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Learned Latin (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin leō ← Ancient Greek λέων
- In film dialogue
- 28 times per million words · number 2,033 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 121 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 276 154 194 165 145
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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