Where the Romanian word “tortura” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. torturer.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French torturer ← Italian torturare
- In film dialogue
- 34 times per million words · number 1,781 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 13 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 4.6 20 20 29 - Swap in a synonym
- chinui (Made in Romanian), frământa (Inherited Latin), neliniști (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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