Where the Romanian word “ou” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. ovum.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- la-cla ōvum ← Vulgar Latin ovum
- In film dialogue
- 66 times per million words · number 1,058 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 32 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 39 73 65 62 31 - Swap in a synonym
- fragil (French), gleznă (Old Slavic), cloci (Neighbouring Slavic languages), menaja (French), rotulă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card