Where the Romanian word “tun” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. tonus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin tonus
- In film dialogue
- 19 times per million words · number 2,684 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 35 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 73 122 56 83 11 - Swap in a synonym
- mult (Inherited Latin), foarte (Inherited Latin), grozav (Neighbouring Slavic languages), tunet (Inherited Latin), zdravăn (Old Slavic), strașnic (Old Slavic)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- tonus → ton
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card