Where the Romanian word “răpi” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. rapire (= rapere).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin rapīre ← Latin rapiō ← Proto-Italic rapiō ← Proto-Indo-European
- In film dialogue
- 56 times per million words · number 1,215 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 9.5 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 95 122 50 32 25 - Swap in a synonym
- fura (Inherited Latin), jefui (Made in Romanian), încânta (Made in Romanian), vrăji (Old Slavic), fermeca (Made in Romanian), cotropi (Unknown origin), captiva (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card