Romanian words first recorded in the 19th century

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 plaque, as MDA2, Tiktin, DEX and the neologism dictionaries give it. MDA2 compares German Platte, and the DN compares Italian placca. Ciorănescu, after Miklosich, Cihac…

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 borrowed from French provoquer, with Latin prōvocāre beside it in DEX, DLR, MDA2, MDN and Wiktionary, and DN adds Italian provocare. It is a 19th-century neologism with several models…

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”)…

It is borrowed from French dur and a learned borrowed from Latin dūrus (“hard”), as DELR, MDA2 and DEX give it. Tiktin and Scriban give Latin alone, Ciorănescu Latin in the 19th century, and the DN…

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 borrowed from French décider, with borrowed from Latin dēcīdō as a second source, as DELR, DEX, DN, MDN, MDA2 and the DLR give it; Ciorănescu and Tiktin give only the French verb. The Latin…

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 French responsable (“answerable, liable”), a 19th-century neologism. Scriban also names Italian responsabile beside the French word. The French word is a learned formation from…

It is borrowed from French suggérer (“to suggest”). The neologism dictionaries compare, or add, Latin suggerō (“to put under, supply”). The French verb is a learned borrowing of the Latin one, which…

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 intelligent and directly Latin intelligēns (“discerning”), as DEX, MDA2, MDN and Wiktionary give it. The Academy dictionary describes it as formed after French, while…

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 borrowed from French suspect and Latin suspectus (“suspected, distrusted”). MDA2 and the DLR give French alone, Scriban and Negulici Latin alone. The Latin adjective is the participle of…

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…

It is borrowed from French urgence, as DEX 2009, MDA2, NODEX, Marcu and Wiktionary give it. Marcu & Maneca add Italian urgenza, and Scriban derives it from urgent, with the French word beside it…

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…

It is borrowed from French référer and German referieren. Ciorănescu names only the French verb. The French word is a learned loan of the 14th century, from Latin referō (“to bring back, report”)…

It is most probably borrowed from Latin aquila (“eagle”), a Latin word taken up by 19th-century scholars and given a Romanian shape. DELR follows Tiktin, Scriban and Ciorănescu's earlier study in…

It is formed from Romanian aminte + -i, on the adverb meaning “in mind”, which is a and minte “mind”. The noun comes from Latin mēns (“mind”), and Ciorănescu lists the adverb and the verb among its…

It is borrowed from French amusant (“amusing”), as DELR, Tiktin, MDA2, DEX and Wiktionary agree. DELR treats it in the family of the verb amuza, beside amuzament, from amusement. The Academy…

It is from Romanian muced (“mouldy, musty”), formed like putregai from putred. Tiktin explains the ⟨g⟩ for ⟨d⟩ by ucide beside ucigaș. Ciorănescu derives it from the verb mucezi in the same way…

It is the long infinitive of revedea (“to see again”), formed from Romanian revedea + -re and used as a noun. The farewell formula la revedere was modelled on French au revoir, as Marcu and Maneca's…

It is borrowed from French saison. Scriban also names Russian сезон (sezon). The French word continues Latin satiō (“sowing, the time of sowing”), from the supine of serō (“to sow, plant”).

DEX, MDA2, the DLR and Marcu derive it from Latin viscōsus (“sticky”). Wiktionary, the REW and Gabinschi count it among the words inherited from Latin, and Wiktionary adds that it can be seen as…

It is inherited from Late Latin forficō (“to cut with shears”), a verb formed on forfex (“shears, scissors”). Candrea and Densusianu point to its records in the Mulomedicina Chironis and the Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leafy twig, sacred bough”), with French verveine as a model beside it. Ciorănescu treats it as a learned word of the 19th century. Pascu and the REW took it as…

It is inherited from Late Latin albor (“whiteness; dawn”) (accusative albōrem), formed on albus (“white”). Ciorănescu names Candrea–Densusianu, the REW and the DA for this etymology. Its Romance…

It is borrowed from French train, a 19th-century loan. The French noun goes back to the verb Old French trahiner (“to pull, drag”), the ancestor of traîner. The same French word spread through the…