Where the Romanian word “râu” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. rivus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin rius ← Latin rīvus ← Proto-Indo-European
- In film dialogue
- 193 times per million words · number 467 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 535 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 207 175 81 79 101 - Swap in a synonym
- val (Old Slavic), potop (Old Slavic), torent (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card