Where the Romanian word “rigă” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. ríghas.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek ρήγας ← Latin rex
- In film dialogue
- under once per million · number 15,480 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 12 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 27 17 2.9 1.4 2.3 - Swap in a synonym
- rege (Learned Latin), popă (Old Slavic), crai (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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