Where the Romanian word “prețios” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. précieux, lat. pretiosus, it. prezioso.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French précieux ← Latin pretiosus
- In film dialogue
- 23 times per million words · number 2,368 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 25 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 20 42 33 50 28 - Swap in a synonym
- important (French), drag (Old Slavic), iubit (Made in Romanian), scump (Old Slavic), afectat (Made in Romanian), valoros (French), căutat (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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