Where the Romanian word “peșteră” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. peštera.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic пещера ← Proto-Slavic peťera
- In film dialogue
- 24 times per million words · number 2,281 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 59 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 59 26 31 19 22 - Swap in a synonym
- ocnă (Old Slavic), grotă (French), vizuină (Unknown origin), bârlog (Old Slavic), cavernă (French), scorbură (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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