Where the Romanian word “spată” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -ate):
Lat. spatha.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -ete):
Lat. spatha.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin spatha ← Ancient Greek σπάθη
- In film dialogue
- 17 times per million words · number 2,872 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 34 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 37 55 190 39 114 - Swap in a synonym
- robust (French), paloș (Hungarian), voinic (Neighbouring Slavic languages), omoplat (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card