Where the Romanian word “patetic” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Din fr. pathétique, germ. pathetisch.
→ French · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French pathétique
- In film dialogue
- 17 times per million words · number 2,842 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1.4 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 9.7 2.6 16 27 - Swap in a synonym
- emoționant (French), mișcător (Made in Romanian), patos (Greek), înduioșător (Made in Romanian), duios (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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