Romanian words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from Romanian fân + -eață. fân continues Latin fēnum (“hay”). The DA and DLRM take it instead from an adjective used as a noun, Vulgar Latin *fenicia, with prata (“meadows”) understood…

DEX and MDA2 take it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *sira, which MDA2 derives from Modern Greek σειρά (seirá, “row, line”). Ciorănescu treats it as a derivative of șir “row, line”, which he takes…

It is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پوشت (puşt, “debauched”). DEX 2009 and NODEX only compare the Turkish word, and Tiktin calls the source probable. The Turkish word, whose first sense was a…

1. The word for the disease is of uncertain origin, and DEX gives it as unknown. DELR thinks it probably a substrate word and compares Albanian brengë (“swelling, sore, diphtheria; swelling on the…

It is inherited from Latin coctūra (“cooking”), a noun formed on coquō (“to cook”). The regular outcome would have been ⟨*cutură⟩; the ⟨-pt-⟩ was remade after the participle copt “baked, ripe”, as…

Its origin is uncertain. The DLR and MDA2 take it as a formation from Romanian dez- + minte (“mind”), an old derivative that may already be Latin, Vulgar Latin *dismentō from mēns (“mind”). Tiktin…

It is inherited from Latin calendārius (“of the calends”), understood with mēnsis (“month”), as Pușcariu, Candrea and Densusianu, the DA and DEX give it. Wiktionary writes the Latin source as…

It is formed from Romanian prăda + -ăciune, according to DEX, MDA2, the DLR and Tiktin. DEX compares Latin praedātiō. Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW took it straight from the Latin…

It is borrowed from French service (“service”), and also borrowed from Latin servitium (“slavery, service”). MDA2, DEX, DLRM and Wiktionary name both sources, and Tiktin names French as the model…

It is borrowed from Latin ordo (“row, rank, order”), whose oblique stem is ⟨ordin-⟩, together with Italian ordine. MDA2 and the DLR name Latin, Italian and French ordre; DEX 2009 names Latin and…

It is borrowed from French billet, the source all the dictionaries name. DELR also gives German Billett, and DEX compares Italian biglietto, which the DLRM gives as the source. Ciorănescu thinks the…

It is borrowed from French corps according to DELR and MDA2, with Latin corpus (“body”) beside it in MDA2: a learned word of the 18th and 19th centuries, whose route the sources describe…

It is formed from Romanian întâlni + -re, the noun of action of the verb. Ciorănescu lists it, with a variant tâlnire, among the derivatives of the verb. The verb is made of în- and tâlni, which…

It is borrowed from Latin dēpōnō (“to put down, lay aside; to deposit”), a learned loan adapted to the inherited verb pune, with some senses after French déposer. Ciorănescu likewise says that all…

It is a neologism, and the dictionaries name different sources. DEX 2009 and the DILF give borrowed from Latin dēvōtō as well as French dévouer (“to devote”). Ciorănescu, Tiktin and the DN give…

Used as an adjective, it is the past participle from Romanian diferi “to differ”. Marcu and Maneca compare French différent, and MDN takes it from the French adjective. The verb is a learned loan…

It is borrowed from Latin membrum (“limb, member”), with French membre as a second model, as DEX, DLR and MDA2 give it, and MDA2 adds Italian membro. Wiktionary gives only French, Tiktin only New…

It is borrowed from French président and the Latin praesidēns, the present participle of praesideō (“to sit in front, preside”), refashioned in Romanian after ședea (“to sit”). Ciorănescu puts the…

It is borrowed from French disparaître, conjugated after părea (“to seem”). Wiktionary and Marcu and Maneca add Late Latin disparēre and Italian disparire as models. The French verb was made with…

It is formed from Romanian sigur + -anță, as MDA2, the DLR, DN and MDN explain it. Tiktin instead takes it from the old Italian sicuranza, reshaped after the adjective, and Scriban gives the same…

It is borrowed from German Rest, French reste and Modern Greek ρέστο (résto) according to MDA2 and the DLR, a loan with several models that the dictionaries rank differently: DEX gives Greek and…

It is formed from Romanian ac (“needle”) + -ar, with the suffix of nouns of place and agent. Ac continues Latin acus, and its sense “railway switch” follows French aiguille and German Nadel. Scriban…

1. The word for “here” is inherited from Latin hōc(c)e (“hither”), as in the DA and DELR. DELR takes its ⟨a-⟩ either from the deictic ⟨a-⟩ of compounds with eccum or from the preposition a…

It is inherited from Latin balteus (“belt, baldric”), which Varro thought an Etruscan word. It survives south of the Danube: Aromanian balțu, the white headscarf of old women. The Romance cognates…

It is borrowed from Italian camera, as Ciorănescu, Tiktin, the DA and DEX give it. In DELR it is also borrowed from Modern Greek κάμερα (kámera), a form of κάμαρα (kámara). Ciorănescu dates the…

Its origin is uncertain. The usual explanation is inherited from Vulgar Latin *dēvocāre (“to empty out”), with the old Latin vowel /o/ of Latin vocō for vacō (“to be empty”) (as in vocuus for…

DELR takes it as a learned loan, borrowed from Late Latin dulcor (“sweetness”), following Graur and the DLR, which give the same Latin source. The Latin noun was formed on Latin dulcis (“sweet”)…

It is formed from Romanian frunte + -ar, in the view of MDA2 and Ciorănescu. Others take it straight from Latin: Pascu, the REW and the DA from Latin frontāle (“frontlet, headband of a horse”)…

It is borrowed from French idée and directly borrowed from Latin idea; DEX, MDA2 and the neologism dictionaries give both sources, while Ciorănescu names only the French word. Tiktin gives the Greek…

It is borrowed from French idiot. Tiktin and the neologism dictionaries also name the Latin and Greek forms beside the French one. The French word was taken from Latin idiōta at the end of the 12th…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personal”), with the German, Italian and French words as further models: DLR and MDA2 name German personell, Personal, Italian personale…

It is borrowed from French zone, as DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary give it. Tiktin names Greek, Latin and Italian zona as its sources, and NODEX adds Latin zōna (“belt; zone”). The French word is a…

It is borrowed from French classe, with German Klasse as a second model, both from Latin classis (“division of citizens; levy; fleet”). Ciorănescu gives only the French word. Tiktin and the DA add…

It is borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, race, kind”), a neologism of the 19th century in Ciorănescu's dating. Latin genus goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os (“race”), from the root *ǵenh₁-…

It is borrowed from Latin probābilis (“worthy of approval; credible”), partly borrowed from French probable, with Italian probabile as a further model: MDA2 and the DLR give all three, DEX the…

It is borrowed from Latin spērō (“to hope”), with Italian sperare as a second model, a neologism of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Romanian dictionaries name both sources: DEX, MDA2, the DLR and…

It is borrowed from French information and Latin īnfōrmātiō, one of the multiple etymologies of Romanian neologisms. Tiktin gives the New Latin word alone, and Negulici the Latin word. The Latin…

It is probably inherited from Latin aureolus (“golden”), from aurum (“gold”), after the plant's yellow flowers. This was proposed by Candrea in 1928, who compared Occitan auriol, and is followed by…

It is inherited from Latin sulfīna, a Latin name of an unidentified plant recorded by A. Thomas; the name is formed on sulphur (“sulphur”) and refers to the yellow colour of the flowers. Candrea had…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *sanatōria (“healing (herb)”), short for a phrase with herba (“herb”), from sanatōrius (“healing”), from sānō (“to heal”). The name refers to the plant's healing…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *hadie (“today”), a local form of Latin hodiē (“today”) with ⟨a⟩ in place of ⟨o⟩. The dictionaries explain the vowel in two ways. Ciorănescu, DEX and Wiktionary…

It is formed from Romanian os + -os, from os “bone”. Ciorănescu thinks it may be a learned formation, and notes that Pușcariu took it directly from Late Latin ossuōsus (“bony”). Cihac, Scriban and…

It is borrowed from French plan, according to Ciorănescu and Wiktionary. DEX names French and Latin, and DLR and MDA2 give French, Latin plānus (“flat, level”) and German Plan together, the multiple…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin plūs (“more”). MDA2, the DLR and Tiktin also name German Plus and French plus as models, and DN adds Italian. Ciorănescu dates it to the 19th century, but the…

DEX takes it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *exfracticō, from fractus (“broken”), an etymology Ciorănescu credits to Candrea. Ciorănescu treats it as a derivative of sfert “quarter”, comparing…

It is borrowed from Italian conto (“account”), with German Konto and French compte as further models: DELR, DER and DN give all three, DEX the French and Italian words with the German one compared…

It is borrowed from French domestique and Latin domesticus (“of the house”), the two sources DEX, DN and MDN name. DELR also gives learned Latin and French. Ciorănescu and Tiktin name only the Latin…

It is a learned borrowing borrowed from Latin absolūtus (“complete, unconditional”), with the senses of French absolu. DEX gives both Latin and French and MDA2 Latin alone; Wiktionary takes it from…

It is borrowed from Latin condūcō (“to bring together, gather, (late) to lead”), a learned borrowing that took on the senses of French conduire. The Latin verb is formed con- and dūcō (“to lead”)…

It is borrowed from Latin mōmentum, with French moment, Italian momento and German Moment as further models, as MDA2, the DLR, DEX and Marcu give it, a word with several sources. Tiktin names the…

1. The word for “to throw” is inherited from Latin ēiectō (“to throw out”), the view of the DA, Pușcariu, the REW, Scriban and DELR. Ciorănescu derives it through a Latin *aiectō formed from it…

The DA, DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary take it as inherited from Latin armārium (“cupboard”), formed in Latin from arma (“weapons, tools”). The DA argues that the Romanians cannot have taken it from a…

It continues inherited from Latin committō (“to join; to entrust, (reflexive) to venture”), according to DER, Tiktin, Candrea–Densusianu and the DA. The REW records the reflexive Latin sense “to…

It is borrowed from Russian полиция (policija), according to DEX; the other dictionaries name several sources together, MDA2 and the DLR give Latin polītīa, German Polizei, Russian and French…

It is formed from Romanian ramură + -os. MDA2 and DLR start from the plural ramuri of ram “branch”. DER lists it among the derivatives of this noun, which is rāmus (“branch”). The REW explains it…

It is borrowed from Modern Greek σίγουρος (sígouros, “sure, safe”), which comes from Venetian seguro or siguro, from Latin secūrus (“free from care; safe”). The DLR and MDA2 give the Greek form as…

It is borrowed from Latin perīculum (“trial; danger”), with Italian pericolo and Modern Greek περίκολον (períkolon) as further sources in MDA2, Tiktin and the Academy dictionary. DEX gives only…

It is borrowed from French seconde, as DEX and Wiktionary give it, with German Sekunde and Latin secunda named beside it by MDA2, Tiktin and the neologism dictionaries. The unit is named from the…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin resolvere, with German resolvieren as a second model. Tiktin also names Italian risolvere, which the DN compares, and the MDN gives Latin and German as the…

It is inherited from Latin febris (“fever”). The form is not the expected one, and the dictionaries explain it differently: Ciorănescu says the regular outcome would have been a singular ⟨*fiore⟩…