Where the Romanian word “usca” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (1 usuc):
Lat. exsucare.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (1 usc):
Lat. exsucare.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin exsuco ← Vulgar Latin
- In film dialogue
- 11 times per million words · number 3,824 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 7.5 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 47 41 26 24 26 - Swap in a synonym
- slăbi (Neighbouring Slavic languages), ruina (Learned Latin), deshidrata (French), sărăci (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card