Where the Romanian word “scânteie” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *scantillia (= scintilla).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin scantilia ← Latin scintilla
- In film dialogue
- 3.6 times per million words · number 7,303 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 20 14 5.7 5.2 3.7 - Swap in a synonym
- pic (Made in Romanian), fărâmă (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card