Where the Romanian word “pepene” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Din lat. pepo, *pepinis.
→ Learned Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin pepo ← Vulgar Latin
- In film dialogue
- 6.3 times per million words · number 5,407 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 25 6.6 7.4 14 5.8 - Swap in a synonym
- enerva (French), dovleac (Turkish), castravete (Made in Romanian), bostan (Turkish), dolofan (Unknown origin), zemos (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card