Romanian words first recorded in the 19th century

It is borrowed from French valeur, with Late Latin valor, the sources DEX and MDN give, and MDA2 and the DLR add Italian valore. DN gives the French and Italian words, both from Latin; Ciorănescu…

DEX, MDA2, NODEX and Wiktionary give it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *infollicō (“to puff like bellows”), a Latin verb formed with in- on follicō, itself from follis (“bag, bellows”). The REW…

DEX, MDA2, Tiktin and the DLR treat it as a back-formation from Romanian nivela (“to level”). The verb is from French niveler. Ciorănescu and Wiktionary instead hold that it is borrowed from French…

It is borrowed from French respirer and Latin respīrō (“to breathe out, breathe again”), as MDA2, the DLR and NODEX give it; DEX and Wiktionary also name Italian respirare. Tiktin names only French…

It is borrowed from French salut (“greeting”), the source MDA2, the DLR, NODEX and Wiktionary give. DEX, DILF and MDN name several sources together, French, Latin and Italian saluto, a case of the…

1. The word for padding is formed from Romanian vată (“cotton wool, wadding”) + -ui. vată is from German Watte. 2. The word for a yearling kid is inherited from Vulgar Latin *vituleus, from Latin…

It is borrowed from French vérifier, a 19th-century loan also modelled on Late Latin vērificō (“to present as true”), as MDA2, the DLR and DEX give it. Wiktionary has French only. The French verb…

1. The word for flight is a back-formation from Romanian zbura (“to fly”), as DEX, the DLR, MDA2 and Tiktin give it. The verb is inherited from Vulgar Latin *exvolō (“to fly out”), from ex- and volō…

The noun for a bonus or premium is borrowed from French prime. French took this noun from English premium, from Latin praemium (“reward”). DN compares the Latin word directly.

It is borrowed from French surprise, as every dictionary says. The French noun is the feminine of surpris, past participle of surprendre (“to surprise”). Graur places it in the family of Latin…

It is borrowed from French drogue. DN compares Italian droga. The French word is of uncertain origin; DELR names Middle Dutch droge (“dry”) as a possible source, from phrases such as droge vate…

Ciorănescu, after Candrea, explains it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *perviescō, a derivative of viēscō (“to shrivel, wither”). The REW, after Giuglea, sets up *pervescīō “to wither” for the…

It is inherited from Latin excoquō (“to boil out, cook thoroughly”), in its spoken form *excocō, as Ciorănescu, DELR, Tiktin, MDA2, the DLR and Candrea–Densusianu agree. The Latin verb is formed ex-…

It is borrowed from French bureau, partly also borrowed from Russian бюро́ (bjuró). MDA2 names both sources. The French word is from Old French burel, a diminutive of the name of a coarse cloth…

It is borrowed from French discuter, one of the French loans of the 19th century. The French verb is from Latin discutiō, whose sense moved from “to shatter, scatter” to “to search through” and, in…

It is borrowed from French immédiat, with Latin immediātus (“without anything between”) as a second source, a 19th-century neologism. Tiktin names only the French adjective and its adverb…

It is formed from Romanian părea + că, the univerbation of a phrase meaning “it seems that”, with the third-person singular present of the verb and the conjunction. Ciorănescu also records the…

Its origin is uncertain; the DLR, MDA2 and Scriban call it unknown. Ciorănescu suggests inherited from Vulgar Latin *pillum, beside Vulgar Latin *pilla, which gave piuă, in place of Latin pīla…

It is borrowed from French chance, the only source the dictionaries name. The French word, first recorded about 1175, comes from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), which continues Vulgar…

Most dictionaries take it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *incircō, a popular Latin compound of circō (“to go round”). The DA explains that its original sense was to encircle, and that it later took…

It is a learned borrowing of the 19th century, and the dictionaries name several sources: borrowed from Late Latin reālis (“real, actual”), as well as French réel, German real and Italian reale…

It is borrowed from French terrain, a neologism of the 19th century. The French word comes from Latin terrēnum, the neuter used as a noun of terrēnus (“made of earth”), from terra (“earth”), with a…

The origin is uncertain: the DEX and Tiktin call it unknown, and DELR lists several proposals. Pușcariu and Densusianu took it from Vulgar Latin *circlīna, a derivative of *circlus, the short form…

It is borrowed from French danser (“to dance”). The variant danța took its ⟨ț⟩ from the older noun danț, according to DELR; the DLR explains it by German tanzen. DHLF thinks a Germanic origin of the…

It is borrowed from French cadeau. The French word first meant an ornamented capital letter and was borrowed in 1416 from Old Occitan capdel (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum (“small head”)…

It is formed from Romanian în- + furcă, as DEX, MDA2, Tiktin and Wikționar state. Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu derived it from Vulgar Latin *infurcō, as Ciorănescu reports. The noun is furca…

It is borrowed from French pose. Tiktin also names Italian posa. The French noun is a back-formation from French poser (“to place, put down”). The verb is the regular outcome of Vulgar Latin pausare…

It is a semi-learned loan of the 19th century, borrowed from Latin rēgem (“king”), the accusative form. Gabinschi also counts rege, the old Italian form, among its sources. It is a doublet of the…

It is inherited from Latin spatium (“space, interval, course”). Tiktin calls the Latin source probable. The REW lists the Transylvanian word, “the space between the weft and the batten of a loom”…

It is inherited from Latin vōx (“voice”), from its accusative vōcem, a word that survives across the Romance languages. Candrea and Densusianu start from a spoken Latin form with /b-/, *bōcem. The…

The origin is uncertain: DEX calls it unknown, and DELR calls it uncertain. The usual view is a compound of the Romance base of bot “snout” and a verb of the family of Latin flō (“to blow”)…

1. The word for the game term is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرس (mars, “double win at backgammon”). Ciorănescu traces the Turkish word to Italian marcio (“rotten”) or its dialect form marzo…

DEX and MDA2 have it inherited from Vulgar Latin *noda, and the DLR, after Candrea and Densusianu, explains that form as a singular made from the plural of nōdum, the neuter beside nōdus (“knot”)…

The dictionaries name several sources: DEX 2009 says it is borrowed from French spectacle and Latin spectāculum; MDA2, the DLR and NODEX add Italian spettacolo. Ciorănescu derives it from the French…

It is borrowed from French apprécier. MDA2 and Marcu name borrowed from Late Latin appretiō (“to appraise”) as a second source, as Romanian dictionaries often do for neologisms. The French verb was…

It is a neologism, borrowed from French difficile, with a second model in Latin difficilis: DELR, DEX and MDN name both, and MDA2, Tiktin and the DLR add Italian difficile. DN and Scriban put the…

It is inherited from Latin pecuīna, the feminine of the adjective pecuīnus (“of sheep or cattle”), which is formed on pecū (“cattle”). Candrea proposed this etymon. Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and…

It is borrowed from Italian riuscire (“to succeed”), with French réussir as a second model: DEX, MDA2, DLR and Wiktionary name both, and Ciorănescu writes of the French verb combined with the…

Ciorănescu, DELR, DEX and MDA2 take it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *affēnō, from fēnum (“hay”): loosening is what is done to hay to dry it. DELR adds Hasdeu and Candrea–Densusianu for this view…

1. The word for the owl is inherited from Late Latin būfus (“owl”), a by-form of būbō, probably imitative. Nocentini takes būfō for an Osco-Umbrian variant of the classical word. It survives south…

It is borrowed from French compter (“to count”), perhaps also borrowed from Italian contare. DELR gives French first and Italian as possible; MDA2, DEX and the neologism dictionaries name both, and…

It is borrowed from French nave, a 19th-century loan with two further models, Latin nāvis (“ship”) and Italian nave, as MDA2, the DLR and DEX give it. The dictionaries weigh the sources differently…

It is borrowed from French renoncer, with Latin renūntiō (“to announce back; to give up”) as a second model, a neologism of the 19th century with two models. Tiktin takes it after French alone. The…

It is borrowed from Latin appāreō (“to appear”), a 19th-century loan conjugated like the native părea “to seem”. DELR and Tiktin name French apparaître beside the Latin verb. Ciorănescu sees a…

It is borrowed from Latin attentus (“attentive, intent”), a learned 19th-century borrowing of the Latin adjective. DELR also compares Italian attento. In Latin the word is the perfect participle of…

It is the familiar variant of chestiune, which is borrowed from French question, with Latin quaestiō (“a seeking, a question”) as a second source. DELR treats the Latin word as a learned loan and…

It is borrowed from Italian distruggere (“to destroy”), as Ciorănescu, DEX, Tiktin and the neologism dictionaries give it. DELR explains the Italian ⟨gg⟩: the Italian verb continues Latin dēstruō…

It is borrowed from French groupe. French borrowed the noun in 1668 from Italian gruppo, an art term for a set of figures forming a whole, which first meant “knot, bundle” and goes back to a…

It is borrowed from French impossible, with Latin impossibilis as a second source, as DEX, MDN and NODEX give it. MDA2 and DN add Italian impossibile. The DA takes it after French, Scriban from…

It is borrowed from French intérieur and Latin interior (“inner”). The DA calls it a neologism after French, with the Latin word beside it, and Wiktionary names only French. Scriban derived it from…

It is borrowed from French message. Ciorănescu and MDA2 add borrowed from Italian messaggio, the model of the variant mesagiu. The French word was formed in the 11th century with the suffix -age on…

It is a learned borrowing borrowed from Latin hōra (“hour”), with Italian ora as a model: DEX and MDN give the Latin and the Italian, and DLR and MDA2 add French heure. The Latin word is from…

It is borrowed from Latin ordo (“row, rank, order”), taken in its accusative form ⟨ordinem⟩, together with Italian ordine. The DLR, MDA2 and Tiktin give Latin alone, DEX 2009 and the neologism…

It is borrowed from French possible, and at the same time borrowed from Latin possibilis, the two sources DEX, MDA2, the DLR, MDN and DILF give. Marcu and Maneca put Latin first and compare French…

It is borrowed from Italian strada (“road, street”), a loan of the 19th century, as DER, Tiktin, MDA2 and NODEX have it. DEX, Marcu's dictionary of neologisms and Wiktionary give borrowed from…

It is a learned borrowing borrowed from Latin ultimus (“farthest, last”), with Italian ultimo beside it, the two sources DEX, DLR, MDA2 and MDN give. DN gives the Latin word and compares French…

It is borrowed from Latin hūmānus (“human”), a learned loan. Marcu and Maneca compare French humain and Italian umano. The regional variant oman owes its initial vowel to the native word for “man”…

It is formed from Romanian urmă + -ări, from the noun meaning “footprint, track”. Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of urmă and notes that its senses are those of French poursuivre. Tiktin…

1. The word for the bast of plants is a learned loan: the DLR and MDA2 take it borrowed from Latin liber (“inner bark of a tree; book”) and French liber, the French botanical term. The neologism…

1. The word for the cornflower is of unknown origin for DEX, MDA2 and Tiktin. Șăineanu derived it from Latin glaucus (“bluish grey”). Scriban saw in it a shortened form of zglăvoc, another folk name…