Where the Romanian word “rădăcină” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. radicina (cu unele sensuri după fr. racine).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Late Latin rādīcīna ← Latin rādix ← Proto-Italic wrādīks
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,158 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 54 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 74 56 54 47 76 - Swap in a synonym
- origine (Learned Latin), cauză (Learned Latin), bază (French), izvor (Old Slavic), radical (French), temelie (Old Slavic), desființa (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card