Where the Romanian word “păpușă” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
Cf. lat. pupa.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin pūpa
- In film dialogue
- 37 times per million words · number 1,648 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 9.1 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 25 25 31 26 - Swap in a synonym
- jucărie (Made in Romanian), marionetă (French), manechin (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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