Where the Romanian word “mic” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Probabil lat. *miccus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin miccus ← grc-dor μῑκκός
- In film dialogue
- 384 times per million words · number 273 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 515 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 256 276 322 495 487 - Swap in a synonym
- puțin (Unknown origin), copil (Unknown origin), tânăr (Inherited Latin), scurt (Inherited Latin), slab (Old Slavic), scăzut (Made in Romanian), limitat (Made in Romanian), redus (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card