Where the Romanian word “vampir” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
Din fr. vampire, germ. Vampir.
→ French · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French vampire ← German Vampir ← Serbo-Croatian vampir ← Proto-Slavic ǫpyrь
- In film dialogue
- 40 times per million words · number 1,574 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 5.4 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 0.5 1.9 3.5 0.9 - Swap in a synonym
- vârcolac (Neighbouring Slavic languages), strigoi (Made in Romanian), exploatator (Made in Romanian), moroi (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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