Etymologically

1800s

Romanian words first recorded in the 19th century

440 Romanian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 19th century, earliest first (page 6). Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. oribil

    1847

    It is borrowed from French horrible and also borrowed from Latin horribilis (“dreadful, terrifying”), a neologism with two sources, as the dictionaries give it. Marcu and Maneca compare Italian…

  2. participa

    1847

    It is borrowed from French participer, with Latin participō (“to share, take part”) as a second source. The Latin verb comes from particeps (“sharing in”), from pars (“part”) and capiō (“to take”)…

  3. plajă

    1847

    It is borrowed from French plage (“beach”), a loan of the 19th century. The French word is from Italian piaggia (“flat open shore”), recorded in French from 1298, and the Italian word goes back to…

  4. renunța

    1847

    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…

  5. responsabil

    1847

    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…

  6. sugera

    1847

    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…

  7. apărea

    1848

    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…

  8. atent

    1848

    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…

  9. chestie

    1848

    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…

  10. distruge

    1848

    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…

  11. federal

    1848

    It is borrowed from French fédéral, the only source that DEX, DN and MDN name. The DA and Scriban also take it from French and trace the French adjective back to Latin foedus (“treaty, alliance”)…

  12. grup

    1848

    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…

  13. implica

    1848

    It is borrowed from French impliquer, a neologism of the 19th century, with Latin implicō as a second model. The neologism dictionaries add Italian implicare, and MDA2 names only French and Italian…

  14. imposibil

    1848

    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…

  15. insista

    1848

    It is borrowed from French insister (“to insist”), one of the French loans of the 19th century. DEX, NODEX and MDN name Latin insistō (“to stand on; to press on”) as a second model beside the French…

  16. inteligent

    1848

    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…

  17. interior

    1848

    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…

  18. inutil

    1848

    It is borrowed from French inutile, with Latin inūtilis (“useless”) as a second model. The DA describes it as a neologism after French, with the Latin word behind it; Marcu and Maneca add Italian…

  19. legal

    1848

    It is borrowed from French légal, with Latin lēgālis (“of or concerned with law”) as a second model, a neologism of the 19th century; the DLR adds German legal as a third model. Gabinschi describes…

  20. mandat

    1848

    It is borrowed from French mandat, with German Mandat as a further model; DEX and the DLR give the French word and compare the German one, and MDA2 names both. Scriban took it from Latin mandātum…

  21. mesaj

    1848

    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…

  22. oră

    1848

    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…

  23. ordine

    1848

    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…

  24. pastilă

    1848

    It is borrowed from French pastille. MDA2, DEX and the DLR also name borrowed from German Pastille as a source. Wiktionary and the DN name French as the main source, the DN comparing German. Scriban…

  25. posibil

    1848

    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…

  26. recent

    1848

    It is borrowed from French récent, also borrowed from Latin recēns (“fresh, new”), a 19th-century loan for which the dictionaries give both sources. The first edition of the neologism dictionary…

  27. semnal

    1848

    It is borrowed from French signal reshaped after the native semn “sign”, as DEX and the DILF put it. The DLR and MDA2 describe the same process from the Romanian side: a formation on that noun after…

  28. stradă

    1848

    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…

  29. suspect

    1848

    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…

  30. trafic

    1848

    It is borrowed from French trafic (“trade; traffic”). DN and Scriban also point to Italian traffico, the source of the French word. French took it from Italian in the 14th century, first adapted as…

  31. transmite

    1848

    It is borrowed from French transmettre, also borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“to send across, pass on”). The older dictionaries put the Latin first: Negulici and Pontbriant give the Latin verb as…

  32. ultim

    1848

    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…

  33. uman

    1848

    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”…

  34. urmări

    1848

    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…

  35. urgență

    1849

    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…

  36. elibera

    1850

    It is borrowed from Latin ēlīberō (“to set free”), a learned borrowing, from līberō (“to free”). Ciorănescu dates it to the 19th century. It stood beside the older libera, with which it long competed.

  37. liber

    1850

    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…

  38. accept

    1851

    It is a commercial term borrowed from German Akzept, with Latin acceptus (“received, accepted”) named beside it as its model. Tiktin and the DA give German alone as the source. DELR, which treats…

  39. ghioc

    1851

    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…

  40. presă

    1851

    It is borrowed from French presse, a 19th-century neologism. The neologism dictionary of Marcu and Maneca adds Italian pressa as a second model. The French noun is formed on the verb presser (“to…

  41. referi

    1851

    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”)…

  42. aceră

    1852

    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…

  43. aminti

    1852

    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…

  44. amuzant

    1852

    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…

  45. mucegai

    1852

    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…

  46. presiune

    1852

    It is borrowed from French pression. MDA2 and MDN add borrowed from Latin pressiō as a second source, and DN also compares Italian pressione. Scriban derives it from the Latin word alone. The French…

  47. revedere

    1852

    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…

  48. sezon

    1852

    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”).

  49. vâscos

    1852

    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…

  50. forfeca

    1853

    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…

  51. verbină

    1853

    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…

  52. alboare

    1854

    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…

  53. tren

    1855

    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…

  54. carieră

    1856

    1. The word for the surface mine is borrowed from French carrière, as DEX, MDA2, the DA and the DN give it; Tiktin and DELR also name borrowed from Italian carriera, and the DA has the French word…

  55. făinar

    1857

    It is formed from Romanian făină + -ar, with the agent suffix for the merchant and the suffix of containers for the bin. Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu took the merchant word straight from Latin…

  56. întortochea

    1857

    In DEX and MDA2 it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *intorticulō, a verb reconstructed on intortus (“twisted”), the participle of intorqueō (“to twist”). Pușcariu, in his dictionary and in volume VII…

  57. mânc

    1857

    It is inherited from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled”). Ciorănescu cites Densusianu, Candrea and Scriban for this; he doubts Pușcariu's link of the Moldavian adjective manc (“imperfect, faulty”)…

  58. mieru

    1857

    It is inherited from Latin merus (“pure, unmixed”). Pușcariu discussed the etymology in the journal Dacoromania, and the REW lists the Transylvanian word meaning “blue” under the Latin word, beside…

  59. naie

    1857

    Ciorănescu takes it as inherited from Latin nāvis (“ship”), from the accusative, following Pușcariu and the REW. Wiktionary also has it inherited. DLR, MDA2 and DLRM instead treat it as a learned…

  60. ofertă

    1857

    It is borrowed from Italian offerta or German Offerte in DEX, while Wiktionary gives the Italian word alone and Marcu and Maneca add French offerte. MDA2 names the French and German words. Scriban…

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