Where the Romanian word “retoric” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din (1) ngr. ritóriki, lat. rhetorica, it. retorica, fr. rhétorique, (2) lat. rhetoricus, it. retorico, fr. rhétorique, ngr. ritorikós, germ. rhetorisch.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Learned Latin (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin rhetoricus
- In film dialogue
- 2.6 times per million words · number 8,665 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 13 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 7.4 3.6 7.8 22 7.5 - Swap in a synonym
- făcut (Made in Romanian), fals (Learned Latin), afectat (Made in Romanian), artificial (French), convențional (French), căutat (Made in Romanian), umflat (Made in Romanian), pretențios (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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