Where the Romanian word “scuză” comes from
From Italian.
- DEX ’98 says
Din it. scusa. Cf. fr. excuse.
→ Italian · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Italian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Italian scusa ← French excuse
- In film dialogue
- 52 times per million words · number 1,299 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1.9 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 3.2 8.7 1.2 13 - Swap in a synonym
- motiv (French), ierta (Inherited Latin), pretext (French), justificare (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
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