Where the Romanian word “poștă” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din rus. počtă.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Neighbouring Slavic languages (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Russian по́чта ← Polish poczta ← Italian posta
- In film dialogue
- 18 times per million words · number 2,726 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 29 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 73 53 39 51 28 - Swap in a synonym
- conac (Turkish), poștal (French), corespondență (French), mesager (French), curier (French), poștaș (Made in Romanian), diligență (French), bârfi (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
da, școală, grijă, păstra, poliție, rus, obicei, ciudat, ba, grozav, ofițer, graniță