Where the Romanian word “striga” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. *strigare (< strix, -gis "bufniță").
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin strix
- In film dialogue
- 60 times per million words · number 1,150 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 373 541 510 162 189 - Swap in a synonym
- numi (Made in Romanian), chema (Inherited Latin), anunța (French), pretinde (French), comunica (French), vesti (Made in Romanian), porunci (Old Slavic), mobiliza (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card