Romanian words first recorded in the 18th century

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…

1. The word for the Arab prince is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شریف (şerif), which is from Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, honoured”). Tiktin derives it first from Turkish, later also from French…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It is a learned word, borrowed from French liberté, and directly borrowed from Latin lībertās (“freedom”): DEX 2009, MDA2, Tiktin, the DLR and Wiktionary name both sources. Marcu & Maneca give Latin…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It is borrowed from French réparer, as MDA2, Tiktin and the DLR give it. DEX 2009, Marcu and Wiktionary name the Latin model as well, so that it is also borrowed from Latin reparō (“to restore…

It is borrowed from French succès, the only source Wiktionary names. DEX 2009, MDA2 and the DLR also name Latin successus. Marcu and Maneca add Italian successo. French borrowed the word in 1540…

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…

It is borrowed from French sud, and according to the DLR and MDA2 also borrowed from Italian sud, with German Süden compared; Tiktin gives Italian alone. The Italian word itself comes from French…

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…

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…

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…

It is borrowed from French à propos (“to the purpose, by the way”), also written à-propos, as DER, DELR, DEX, DN and MDN give it. The French phrase is formed from à (“to”), from Latin ad, and propos…

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…

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…

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…

It is borrowed from French mission, borrowed from Latin missiō (“a sending”), as DEX and Wiktionary give it. MDA2 and DLR add borrowed from Italian missione and the Russian миссия (missija). DN…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It is borrowed from Latin animal (“living being, animal”), a learned borrowing, later reinforced by French animal. Ciorănescu and the DA take the noun straight from French, Tiktin from animālis…

It is borrowed from French attaque. The DELR names Italian attacco beside the French word, Tiktin the Italian alone, and the DA gives French with Italian as a parallel. The French word is a noun…

DEX and Wiktionary take it as formed from Romanian în- + cânta (“to sing”), on the model of French enchanter. Tiktin and Marcu & Maneca also see the French verb as the model, Tiktin with Latin and…

It is inherited from Latin lūcidus (“bright, shining”), as Bogrea proposed. The Latin adjective is formed on lūceō (“to shine”) with -idus. The REW sets it beside Spanish lucio and Portuguese luzio…

1. The word for “mass” is borrowed from French masse, a neologism of the early 19th century. The DLR, MDA2 and Tiktin also name German Masse as a source; DEX names only the French word. The…

It is borrowed from French mètre and, at the same time, borrowed from Latin metrum (“poetic metre”), as DEX and DILF give it. Tiktin and Wiktionary name French alone, and DN compares Ancient Greek…

The Academy dictionaries derive it from Romanian moale + -eață. moale is from Latin mollis (“soft”). Candrea and Densusianu instead took it from Latin mollitia (“softness”), with Italian mollezza…

It is borrowed from Latin honor (“honour”), French honneur and Italian onore. Marcu and Maneca give the Latin word and compare the French and Italian ones. Gabinschi notes that it comes from the…

It is borrowed from French pièce (“piece”). Scriban names Italian pezza and pezzo beside the French word. The French noun continues Medieval Latin petia, which goes back to Gaulish *pettia…

It is formed from Romanian pre- + găti (“to make ready”), on the model of Latin praeparō (“to prepare”). Tiktin also names French préparer and German vorbereiten as models, and DEX gives the Latin…

1. The word for scraping is formed from Romanian rade + -ură, a noun of action and result on the verb. DEX 2009 gives its base as the participle ras with the same suffix. Wiktionary and Scriban…

It is borrowed from French sérieux, with Italian serioso beside it, as Ciorănescu gives it. MDA2 and Marcu add Latin seriosus, and Marcu & Maneca compare the Medieval Latin word. Like many…