Where the Romanian word “preot” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Din lat. presbiterum.
→ Learned Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin presbyter ← Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος
- In film dialogue
- 50 times per million words · number 1,327 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 223 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 100 86 112 219 195 - Swap in a synonym
- părinte (Inherited Latin), apostol (Old Slavic), popă (Old Slavic), păstor (Inherited Latin), sacerdot (Italian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card