Where the Romanian word “ostatic” comes from
From Italian.
- DEX ’98 says
Din it. ostatico.
→ Italian · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Italian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Italian ostatico
- In film dialogue
- 24 times per million words · number 2,254 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.1 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 1.2 - Swap in a synonym
- amanet (Turkish), gaj (French), zălog (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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