Where the Romanian word “sfânt” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Din sl. sventŭ.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.m.):
Din sl. sventŭ.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Learned Latin (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin sanctus
- In film dialogue
- 96 times per million words · number 773 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 530 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 771 344 449 483 361 - Swap in a synonym
- bun (Inherited Latin), muri (Inherited Latin), niciodată (Made in Romanian), grozav (Neighbouring Slavic languages), perfect (Learned Latin), iubit (Made in Romanian), scump (Old Slavic), sacru (Learned Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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