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Romanian words from Latin words first recorded in the 8th century

3 Romanian words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 8th century, earliest Latin record first.

1. găleată

   770–799

   from Latin galleta

   It is inherited from Late Latin galleta (“bucket”), a Late Latin word recorded in a glossary. Wiktionary takes it as a diminutive of a Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), perhaps of Gaulish origin, but…

2. desface

   779

   from Latin disfacio

   It is inherited from Latin disfaciō (“to undo”), from dis- and faciō (“to make, do”), according to MDA2, Candrea–Densusianu and Wiktionary. Ciorănescu allows the Latin verb but thinks it more likely…

3. credință

   785

   from Latin credentia

   It is inherited from Late Latin crēdentia (“belief”), from crēdēns (“believing”), from crēdō (“to believe”). REW notes that a word formed in Romanian on crede would be ⟨crezință⟩, which points to…

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