Where the Romanian word “urca” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Probabil lat. *oricare (= oriri).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin ← Latin orior
- In film dialogue
- 154 times per million words · number 552 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 57 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 71 173 168 199 222 - Swap in a synonym
- avansa (French), spori (Neighbouring Slavic languages), spânzura (Inherited Latin), sui (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card