Where the Romanian word “vioară” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Lat. viola.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (adj.):
Probabil lat. *vivula (< vivus).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Cf. it. viola.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin viola
- In film dialogue
- 7.1 times per million words · number 5,078 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 21 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 15 29 37 32 - Swap in a synonym
- clar (Learned Latin), pur (Learned Latin), curat (Made in Romanian), limpede (Inherited Latin), cristalin (French), transparent (French), violonist (French), toporaș (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card