Where the Romanian word “șarpe” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. pop. serpes, -is (= serpens, -ntis).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin serpēns ← Proto-Indo-European serp-
- In film dialogue
- 40 times per million words · number 1,581 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 32 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 84 98 69 43 51 - Swap in a synonym
- cobră (French), înfricoșa (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card