Where the Romanian word “mătușă” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. amita.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin amita
- In film dialogue
- 64 times per million words · number 1,084 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.9 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 27 40 47 35 17 - Swap in a synonym
- babă (Neighbouring Slavic languages), tușă (French), tanti (French), lele (Neighbouring Slavic languages), țață (Greek)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card