Etymologically

1700s

Romanian words first recorded in the 18th century

190 Romanian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 18th century, earliest first (page 3). Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. plan

    1785

    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…

  2. plus

    1785

    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…

  3. sfârteca

    1785

    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…

  4. cont

    1786

    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…

  5. domestic

    1786

    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…

  6. absolut

    1787

    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…

  7. conduce

    1787

    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”)…

  8. culoare

    1787

    It is borrowed from Latin color, a learned loan, reinforced by French couleur, with Italian colore as a further model: DELR and Tiktin give all three. MDA2 and NODEX name French and Latin, and…

  9. moment

    1787

    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…

  10. adresă

    1788

    It is borrowed from French adresse, a neologism of the late 18th century. As Wiktionary has it, it may also be borrowed from German Adresse. DELR takes the old neuter variant adres from Hungarian…

  11. aiepta

    1788

    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…

  12. armar

    1788

    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…

  13. încumeta

    1788

    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…

  14. poliție

    1788

    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…

  15. rămuros

    1788

    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…

  16. sigur

    1788

    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…

  17. fals

    1789

    It is borrowed from Latin falsus (“false”), as Ciorănescu and Wiktionary give it; DEX, MDA2 and MDN add that it is also borrowed from Italian falso, and Tiktin calls it a New Latin word taken partly…

  18. pericol

    1790

    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…

  19. secundă

    1790

    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…

  20. rezolva

    1791

    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…

  21. respect

    1792

    It is borrowed from French respect, with Latin respectus (“regard, consideration”), the two sources DEX, the DLR and MDN name. MDA2 adds Hungarian respektus and German Respekt, and the DLR derives…

  22. fior

    1793

    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⟩…

  23. ghindar

    1793

    It is formed from Romanian ghindă + -ar according to DEX 2009, MDA2, NODEX and the DLRM, and Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of the noun. Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW instead…

  24. holba

    1793

    It is most often explained as inherited from Latin volvō (“to roll, turn”), with a change of conjugation, through the variant volba. Candrea and Densusianu explain the /h/ for /v/ before a labial as…

  25. mașină

    1793

    It is borrowed from French machine, with German Maschine as a second model, as DEX, MDA2 and Marcu's dictionary of neologisms give it. Ciorănescu takes it from French and, earlier, in the 18th…

  26. rahat

    1793

    It is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish راحت (rahat, “rest, comfort”), from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “rest, ease”). Nişanyan derives the Arabic noun from the verb أراح (arāḥa, “to take breath”), from روح…

  27. reveni

    1793

    1. The verb for becoming damp is formed from Romanian reavăn (“moist (of soil)”) + -i according to Tiktin, the DLR, DEX 2009, MDA2 and Wiktionary. The adjective reavăn is borrowed from Bulgarian…

  28. scenă

    1793

    It is borrowed from French scène, with Italian scena and Latin scaena as further sources in DEX, while MDA2 and the DLR give the French and Italian words and German Szene. Ciorănescu takes it from…

  29. amic

    1794

    It is a neologism of the late 18th century, borrowed from Italian amico, or taken directly from Latin amīcus (“friend”): DELR, DEX and DN name both, DER and MDA2 the Latin word only. DLRM gives the…

  30. apartament

    1794

    It is borrowed from French appartement and the Italian appartamento. DEX and Wiktionary name only the French word. French took the word from the Italian, which is from Spanish apartamiento…

  31. ataca

    1794

    It is borrowed from French attaquer (“to attack”), a 19th-century neologism. DELR names borrowed from Italian attaccare beside the French verb, and Tiktin gives only the Italian word. The DA takes…

  32. atenție

    1794

    It is a learned word with several sources: DELR gives its sources as borrowed from Latin attentiō, French attention and Italian attenzione, DEX the French and Latin words, and Tiktin only the…

  33. bravo

    1794

    The dictionaries give two sources: In DA, Tiktin, Scriban and MDA2 it is borrowed from Italian bravo; the DLRM has French bravo. DELR, DEX and Wiktionary give both, and DELR adds that the French…

  34. continua

    1794

    It is borrowed from French continuer (“to continue”), together with its own source, borrowed from Latin continuō (“to join together, continue”). DELR calls the Latin verb a learned borrowing, and…

  35. crimă

    1794

    It is borrowed from French crime, from Latin crimen (“accusation, charge”). MDA2 names the Latin word beside the French one, and an old neuter variant kept the Latin form unchanged. Graur places the…

  36. decizie

    1794

    It is borrowed from French décision, taken in together with learned Latin decisio. Tiktin gives only the French word, and Marcu & Maneca put the Latin first, comparing the French. Ciorănescu lists…

  37. deja

    1794

    It is borrowed from French déjà (“already”). Ciorănescu calls it a Gallicism. The French adverb grew out of the phrase Old French des ja, from des (“right after”) and ja (“now, then”), the latter…

  38. imagine

    1794

    It is borrowed from Latin imāgō (“likeness, image”), with its stem from the accusative imāginem, and with senses taken from French image. The DA and Scriban give only the Latin word. Tiktin compares…

  39. mișuna

    1794

    Its origin is disputed. In the view of Candrea and Densusianu it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *messiōnō (“to reap, to harvest”), formed on messiō (“harvesting, reaping”), which they compare with…

  40. necesar

    1794

    It is borrowed from French nécessaire and Latin necessārius, the two sources MDA2, the DLR and NODEX give; DEX and DILF also name Italian necessario. Tiktin and Scriban name only the Latin word…

  41. nestimat

    1794

    Ciorănescu explains it as the Romanian negative prefix ne- with inherited from Latin aestimātus (“valued, assessed”), the participle of aestimō (“to value, estimate”), following Tiktin and Pascu…

  42. obține

    1794

    It is borrowed from French obtenir, also borrowed from Latin obtineō, with the conjugation of the native verb ține. MDA2 and Tiktin name the French and the Latin verb, MDN and the DLR put the French…

  43. ocupa

    1794

    It is borrowed from Latin occupō (“to seize, take possession of”), a 19th-century neologism with French occuper as a second model, as the Romanian dictionaries say. Tiktin and the dictionaries of…

  44. permite

    1794

    It is borrowed from French permettre, a learned loan of the late 18th and 19th centuries; DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary name Latin permittō (“to let go, allow”) as a second source. The dictionaries weigh…

  45. profesor

    1794

    It is borrowed from Latin professor (“public teacher”), together with French professeur and German Professor. The DLR and MDA2 name all three, as does Wiktionary; DEX 2009 gives French and German…

  46. promite

    1794

    It is borrowed from Latin prōmittō (“to send forward, to promise”) and French promettre: DEX, MDA2, the DLR, DILF and Marcu's MDN name both words. Marcu & Maneca's DN gives the Latin verb and…

  47. proteja

    1794

    It is borrowed from French protéger, with borrowed from Latin prōtegō (“to cover in front, shelter”) named beside it by most dictionaries. MDA2, the DLR and Tiktin also name Italian proteggere. The…

  48. rapid

    1794

    It is borrowed from French rapide, together with borrowed from Latin rapidus (“tearing along, swift”), the double source the dictionaries give. Tiktin takes it from Latin by way of the modern…

  49. recunoaște

    1794

    It is formed from Romanian re- + cunoaște on the model of French reconnaître; DELR adds Latin recognōscō as a model. Wiktionary calls it a calque of the French verb. cunoaște “to know” is inherited…

  50. victimă

    1794

    It is borrowed from French victime, with Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”) as a second model: a neologism with two models. Tiktin takes it from the Latin word alone, and Wiktionary from French…

  51. vizită

    1795

    It is borrowed from French visite (“visit”), as DEX, MDA2, DN and Wiktionary give it. Scriban compares Italian visita as well. Tiktin derives it instead from the verb vizita, which he takes from New…

  52. accident

    1799

    It is borrowed from French accident and directly borrowed from Latin accidēns, as DEX, MDA2 and the neologism dictionaries give it. DELR and Tiktin add Italian accidente, and Ciorănescu names French…

  53. aplecăciune

    1799

    It is formed from Romanian apleca + -ciune. The DA thought it a coinage of Țichindeal that never entered the common language. Wiktionary compares Latin applicātiō and calls it a doublet of…

  54. evident

    1799

    It is borrowed from French évident, together with Latin ēvidens (“visible, clear”), as DELR, MDA2, the DLR and DEX 2009 give it; DELR adds Italian evidente, which Tiktin names alone. Wiktionary…

  55. important

    1799

    It is a 19th-century neologism, borrowed from French important (“important”), as DEX, MDA2 and MDN give it; the DA calls it a new word modelled on French. Tiktin derives it instead from Italian…

  56. literă

    1799

    It is borrowed from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet”), a learned loan. Ciorănescu dates it to the 19th century. The DLR names French lettre and Italian lettera beside the Latin word. These…

  57. motiv

    1799

    It is a neologism with several models: borrowed from French motif, with Italian motivo and German Motiv as further models. Tiktin names only the Italian word, while Marcu and Maneca also name the…

  58. periculos

    1799

    It is borrowed from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous”), with Italian pericoloso as a second model. Ciorănescu and Tiktin give only the Italian adjective, which Ciorănescu treats as the model of a…

  59. abate

    1800

    1. The word for the abbot is borrowed from Italian abate. DLRM and MDA2 also name borrowed from Latin abbās, abbātis, while the DA has it borrowed from French abbé: DELR records all three views. The…

  60. american

    1800

    DELR takes it as borrowed from French américain and New Latin Americanus, and the DA says it was formed after the French word. Marcu's MDN gives the French word alone. DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary…

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