Where the Romanian word “porumb” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Lat. palumbus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Lat. palumbus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl. -uri):
Lat. palumbus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin palumbus ← Proto-Indo-European pal-wo
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,156 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 11 16 47 61 31 - Swap in a synonym
- porumbel (Made in Romanian), mălai (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card