Romanian words first recorded in the 19th century

The dictionaries mostly explain it as formed from Romanian daună (“damage”) + -os, with the adjective suffix. daună is itself a learned word, from Latin damnum (“damage, loss”), first recorded in…

It is inherited from Latin grūmus (“heap of earth, hillock”), according to Ciorănescu, Cihac and Wiktionary. Ciorănescu notes that the word occurs only in the old dictionaries and that no modern…

The word for gout is borrowed from French goutte (“drop, gout”), a modern medical loan. The French word continues Latin gutta (“drop”). Scriban explains the name of the disease by the old belief…

It is inherited from Latin marcidus (“withered, rotten”), from marceō (“to wither”) and the suffix -idus. The vowel ⟨â⟩ is unexpected. Ciorănescu puts it down to expressive treatment and a false…

Its origin is disputed, and DEX calls it unknown. Ciorănescu thinks it probably borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نائبه (naibe, “misfortune”), a word of Arabic origin, through Romani naibah (“bad…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *pittula (“small cake”) according to DEX, MDA2, Scriban, the REW and Wiktionary, a diminutive of *pitta, which also gave pată. Pușcariu and Candrea had proposed…

It is inherited from Late Latin porcella (“female piglet”), the feminine of porcellus (“piglet”), a diminutive of porcus (“pig”). The REW lists it with Italian porcella beside the masculine purcel…

It is inherited from Latin nātus (“born; a son”), the past participle of nāscor (“to be born”). Ciorănescu compares the Latin plural in the sense “offspring”, as opposed to the parents. Wiktionary…

DEX, DLRM, MDA2, Ciorănescu and Wiktionary take it as inherited from Latin coopertōrium (“covering”), formed on cooperiō (“to cover”). Ciorănescu cites Pușchilă and Pușcariu for it, and the REW…

It is borrowed from French salle (“room, hall”), the source DEX and Wiktionary give. MDA2 and NODEX name several models at once, Modern Greek, French, German Saal and Italian sala, a case of…

1. The word for the blueberry shrub is of uncertain origin. Ciorănescu, after Herzog, and Wiktionary take it as inherited from Latin daphne (“laurel”), from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”)…

It is borrowed from French intéressant. The DA calls it a neologism after French; Tiktin and the DN also compare Italian interessante.

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *occāsiōnō, a verb formed on occāsiō (“opportunity, chance”). Ciorănescu, following Ascoli and Pușcariu, thinks the form was changed early to *accāsiōnō by a…

It is inherited from Latin pappō (“to eat soft food”), according to MDA2, DEX, the DLR, Șăineanu and Wiktionary. The REW lists it with Italian pappare, Sardinian pappare, Old French paper and…

It is borrowed from French chef (“chief, boss”), as DER, MDA2, DEX, Tiktin and the neologism dictionaries agree. The French word goes back to Latin caput (“head”). Romanian also kept the Latin word…

It is borrowed from French suc, also borrowed from Latin sūcus (“juice, sap”), the sources the dictionaries name together. Ciorănescu gives French alone, Tiktin gives Italian succo, and Marcu and…

It is formed from Romanian grâne + -ar, from the plural of grâu, according to DEX, MDA2 and NODEX. The DA divides the word: the masculine, for the grain merchant, is a Romanian agent noun in -ar…

It is inherited from Late Latin mixticius (“of mixed breed”), formed on Latin mixtus (“mixed”), the past participle of misceō (“to mix”). Wiktionary notes that the Latin word occurs in Jerome and…

It is borrowed from Hungarian prémonda, a word of Transylvanian Hungarian folk speech. Tamás records the Hungarian dialect forms prămonda and peremonda for a payment in kind to workers, and the…

It is borrowed from French normal, Latin normālis and Italian normale, the sources DEX and Marcu's MDN name. Marcu & Maneca's DN compares the Latin, French and Italian adjectives. MDA2 and the DLR…

It is borrowed from French club, which is from English club; DEX and MDA2 name both French and English as sources, and Tiktin allows a direct English loan as well as one through another language…

1. The word for “yes” is a late borrowing from Slavic, most likely from several languages at once: borrowed from Bulgarian да (da) in the speech of Muntenia, Russian да (da) in the towns of Muntenia…

1. The word for the palate is borrowed from Latin palātum (“palate”), with Italian palato as a second model according to DEX and MDN. DEX and the DLR compare French palais. Ciorănescu treats it as a…

It is borrowed from French client and the Latin cliēns, a learned borrowing of the 19th century. Wiktionary names the French word, itself a learned borrowing from Latin; Marcu and Maneca put the…

It is borrowed from French correct. DEX, Marcu and DELR take it as also borrowed from Latin correctus (“corrected, improved”), the learned Latin word, and DELR names German korrekt as a third model…

It is borrowed from French direct and Latin dīrēctus (“straight, without intermediary”): DEX and Marcu's MDN name both, MDA2 too. Marcu & Maneca's DN gives the Latin word with the French one for…

It is inherited from Latin tēla (“web, cloth on the loom; warp”). Burlă first proposed the etymology, and Pușcariu and the REW accepted it. Ciorănescu rejects a Persian origin, a word for “thread…

It is borrowed from Latin vōx (“voice”), a learned loan of the 19th century. Tiktin names New Latin and Italian voce as its sources, and NODEX names Latin and Italian. The DLR compares French voix…

It is inherited from Latin līmōsus (“muddy, slimy”), formed on līmus (“mud, slime”). Candrea and Densusianu take it from the Latin word, with its sound shaped by im “mud”. Tiktin and DLRLV instead…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin perfectus (“completed, perfect”) of the early 19th century, with borrowed from German perfekt as a second model in DEX, MDA2 and DLR. DER and Tiktin give the…

It is borrowed from French secret, and at the same time borrowed from Latin sēcrētus, the two sources DEX, MDA2, the DLR, MDN and DILF give. Marcu and Maneca name the Latin noun sēcrētum and compare…

It is borrowed from French simple, first recorded in 1814. The French word is from Latin simplex (“made of one element; plain, artless”), literally “folded once”, a compound of a root of unity and…

It is borrowed from Latin continuus (“uninterrupted, continuous”), a learned borrowing, with French continu as a second model: DELR, DEX and MDA2 give both, while DER, Tiktin and Wiktionary name…

According to DEX, DLR and MDA2, which give it several sources at once, it is borrowed from Latin novitās (“newness, novelty”), borrowed from French nouvelle (“news”) and, in DLR and MDA2, borrowed…

It is a learned word, borrowed from Latin damnum (“loss, damage”), adapted to Romanian sounds: the group /mn/ was turned into /un/ as in scaun, which continues scamnum. Tiktin explains the feminine…

It is formed from Romanian munte + -os, “full of mountains”, the view of DEX, MDA2 and DLR. Tiktin also derives it from munte. Older dictionaries took it straight from Latin montuōsus…

It is a learned 19th-century loan, borrowed from Latin trādō (“to hand over; to betray”), adapted to the conjugation of da. Tiktin calls it a reshaping of the Latin verb on the pattern of that verb…

It is a learned borrowed from Latin clārus (“bright, clear, famous”) of the early 19th century. DELR, DEX and Tiktin also name borrowed from French clair, itself adapted after the Latin word, and…

It is borrowed from French épisode, the source DEX, DELR and Wiktionary give. DELR also names German Episode and Italian episodio. DLR and Tiktin add Modern Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion); DELR…

It is from Romanian încrede (“to trust”) + -re, the long infinitive of the verb used as a noun. The verb, recorded from 1581 in a Coresi print, joins the prefix în- to crede “to believe”. The latter…

It is formed from Romanian lapte (“milk”) + -ar, the agent suffix of trade names. lapte continues Latin lac (“milk”). MDA2 gives the same formation but compares Latin lactārius (“of milk”), and…

It is formed from Romanian minți + -tor. minți “to lie” is from Latin mentior (“to lie”). Ciorănescu calls it a rare word formed within Romanian; the REW instead takes it from Latin, as “liar”…

It is inherited from Latin mucor (“mould, mustiness”), continued from its accusative mūcōrem. The Latin noun is formed on mūceō (“to be mouldy”) with the suffix -or. Candrea and Densusianu record…

It is borrowed from French observer, and DLR, MDA2, DEX, DN and MDN add a direct borrowed from Latin observō; DER and Wiktionary give French with its Latin source. Tiktin calls it New Latin first…

It is formed from Romanian plumb + -ar, from plumb (“lead”) with the agent suffix. Scriban also compares Latin plumbārius (“lead-worker”), and Wiktionary notes that the Romanian word corresponds to…

It is a neologism, borrowed from French terminer, with Latin terminō (“to set bounds to, to end”) as a second model. Tiktin gives the Latin word as the model, taken directly or through another…

It is borrowed from French exister, with the learned Latin existō beside it: DELR, DEX, DLR and MDA2 all give both sources. The Latin verb, also spelled exsistō, meant “to rise, step out; to appear…

1. The adjective meaning “fine” is borrowed from French fin. The neologism dictionaries name French and Italian fino as its sources. Ciorănescu takes it from fino, probably through the East. He…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *pedinus, a derivative of pēs (“foot”), the cloth's “foot” being its lower, unwoven end. Candrea proposed it, and Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW follow…

It is borrowed from French sincère and Latin sincērus (“pure, unmixed”), one of the multiple etymologies of Romanian neologisms. The DLR and MDA2 give French and Italian sincero instead, and Tiktin…

It is formed from Romanian a- + facere “doing, making”, the long infinitive of face, on the model of French affaire. The DA calls it a neologism made after French. Ciorănescu explains it by the…

It is borrowed from Latin arborētum (“plantation of trees”), a learned loan, or a collective formed from Romanian arbore + -et: DELR gives both, and the DA calls it a recent collective modelled on…

It is inherited from Latin fūmārium (“smoke chamber”) in the view of the DA, DEX, MDA2 and Candrea–Densusianu, and the REW lists it under that word. Ciorănescu lists it instead among the Romanian…

It is formed from Romanian ghindură + -os according to MDA2 and NODEX, and Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of the noun. Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu derive it directly from Late Latin…

It is either inherited from Vulgar Latin *infolliāre, formed on follis (“bellows, bag”), or a Romanian formation on the plural foi of foaie. The DA, MDA2 and Tiktin take the Latin form, which Cihac…

It is formed from Romanian plumb + -os, from plumb (“lead”) with the adjective suffix. Scriban and Cihac compare Latin plumbōsus (“full of lead”), and the Lexicon of Buda gave the Latin word as its…

It is formed from Romanian pulpă (“calf of the leg; pulp”) + -os. Candrea–Densusianu, Cihac and Șăineanu see it instead as inherited from Latin pulpōsus (“fleshy”), and the REW lists the Romanian…

It is a back-formation from Romanian măcelări (“to slaughter”), according to DEX, MDA2 and the Academy dictionary. That verb is formed on măcelar (“butcher”), which goes back to Latin macellārius…

It is formed from Romanian pre- + supune on the model of French présupposer. Tiktin and the DLR name Latin praesuppōnō as a model beside the French verb. Ciorănescu takes it as the French verb…

Its origin is uncertain: DEX and NODEX call it of unknown origin and compare urca. DELR, which also leaves it open, gives two Latin explanations. The first, Pușcariu's, accepted by the DA, CADE and…