Where the Romanian word “mătase” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. metaxa.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin mataxa
- In film dialogue
- 10 times per million words · number 3,986 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 18 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 37 47 34 45 65 - Swap in a synonym
- moale (Inherited Latin), răsfățat (Made in Romanian), lucios (Made in Romanian), mătăsos (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card