Where the Romanian word “săpa” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. sappare.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin sappāre ← Latin sappa
- In film dialogue
- 36 times per million words · number 1,682 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 119 57 60 43 32 - Swap in a synonym
- mânca (Inherited Latin), roade (Inherited Latin), dărâma (Inherited Latin), imprima (French), măcina (Inherited Latin), nimici (Made in Romanian), unelti (Made in Romanian), mina (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card