Where the Romanian word “spăla” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *expellavare (= ex-per-lavare).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin experlavo ← Late Latin perlavo ← Latin lavō
- In film dialogue
- 86 times per million words · number 851 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 12 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 57 62 78 60 93 - Swap in a synonym
- mânca (Inherited Latin), certa (Inherited Latin), curăța (Made in Romanian), jefui (Made in Romanian), săpa (Inherited Latin), uda (Inherited Latin), roade (Inherited Latin), purifica (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card