Where the Romanian word “sfoară” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Probabil din ngr. sfóra.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic съвора
- In film dialogue
- 19 times per million words · number 2,708 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 3.2 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 15 7.6 21 23 30 - Swap in a synonym
- înșela (Inherited Latin), exagera (French), aliniat (Made in Romanian), unelti (Made in Romanian), șirag (Hungarian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
sigur, ortodox, măcar, stradă, septembrie, rest, englez, scop, titlu, bătălie, lipsi, poet