Where the Romanian word “puți” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *putire (= putere).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin putīre ← Latin puteo
- In film dialogue
- 18 times per million words · number 2,806 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- under once per million
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 101 23 5.5 6.8 6.4 - Swap in a synonym
- auzi (Inherited Latin), mirosi (Old Slavic), duhni (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card