Where the Romanian word “spune” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. exponere.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin expōnō
- In film dialogue
- 6,362 times per million words · number 25 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 331 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 2,017 1,674 1,768 1,776 2,853 - Swap in a synonym
- numi (Made in Romanian), zice (Inherited Latin), scrie (Inherited Latin), prezenta (French), citi (Old Slavic), cuprinde (Inherited Latin), cânta (Inherited Latin), explica (French)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- exponere → expune
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card