Romanian words first recorded in the 19th century

It is formed from Romanian vad (“ford”) + -os, according to MDA2 and the DLR. Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of vad as well, but notes that the REW traces it to Latin vadōsus (“full of…

It is borrowed from French virus, also modelled on Latin vīrus (“poison, venom”), a neologism with two models. Scriban gives only the Latin. French took it from Latin in 1478. The Latin word, which…

It is borrowed from French assumer and Latin assūmō, the Latin verb as a learned borrowing; DELR, DEX, MDA2 and MDN name both sources. Tiktin and the DA say it was formed after the French verb. The…

It is formed from Romanian ceară + -os, “full of wax”. Wiktionary compares Latin cērōsus (“full of wax”), Italian ceroso and French cireux, which have the same make-up, but the Romanian dictionaries…

MDA2, DEX and DLR take it as inherited from Latin nāsūtus (“having a long nose; witty”). Pușcariu, Candrea and Densusianu and the REW give the same etymon, and compare Italian nasuto, Logudorese…

It is inherited from Latin nūtrīcō (“to suckle, nurse”), as MDA2, DLR and Wiktionary give it. The Latin verb is formed on nūtrīx (“wet nurse”) and is used by Plautus and Varro. The REW lists its…

It is formed from Romanian plictisi + -tor, from the verb “to bore” with the agent and adjective suffix. The verb is from Modern Greek πλήττω (plítto), built on its aorist έπληξα (éplixa) or…

It is borrowed from French photographe (“photographer”), as DEX, MDA2 and the neologism dictionaries give it. Scriban derived it from fotografie. The French word is formed from Ancient Greek φῶς…

It is borrowed from French jungle. French took the word in 1796 from English jungle, which goes back to Hindustani जंगल (jaṅgal, “uninhabited land, wilderness”), from a Sanskrit word for a desert or…

1. The word for the ball game is of uncertain origin: DEX and MDA2 call it unknown, and DLR only compares the Turkish word. Ciorănescu, after Bogrea, sees it as borrowed from Kipchak oyn (“game”)…

It is borrowed from French récupérer, with Latin recuperāre as a second source, a multiple etymology given by DEX, MDA2, the DLR and MDN; Wiktionary takes it from French, which had it from Latin…

It is borrowed from French téléphone, the source that Ciorănescu, DEX and the neologism dictionaries give, and according to MDA2 and the DLR it is also borrowed from German Telefon. Wiktionary gives…

It is from Romanian datori, the older form of datora “to owe”: the feminine of its past participle, “owed”, came to be used as a preposition governing the dative. MDA2 calls it a new formation and…

It is formed from Romanian plămân (“lung”) + -ărică, with a diminutive suffix, after the plant's use against lung diseases, as DEX and Wikționar give it. MDA2 instead forms it from Romanian…

It is borrowed from French merci (“thank you”), a Frenchism of the 19th century. The French word comes from Latin mercēs (“wages, reward”), which in Late Latin also came to mean “favour, grace”…

It is inherited from Latin Barbara, the name of the saint. DELR gives two explanations of its ⟨u⟩: assimilation to the ⟨b⟩ through the variant barboră (Candrea), or the influence of barbur, from…

It is formed from Romanian gust (“August”) + -ar, from a popular variant of the month name agust. That name continues Vulgar Latin agustus, the reduced popular form of Augustus, the name of the…

It is formed from Romanian bebe + -ăluș, a diminutive of the word for a baby. Wiktionary divides it differently, with the suffix -luș. The base is from French bébé, a word of French nursery…

DEX 2009, DN and MDN explain it as formed in Romanian, from Romanian distracție + -iv, made on the model of atracție beside atractiv. DELR instead takes it from French distractif, and MDA2 derives…

It is formed from Romanian iepure (“hare”) + -ar. Iepure continues Latin lepus (“hare”). Wiktionary also allows a direct descent from leporārius, the Latin adjective “of a hare”, and names levrier…

It is probably formed from Romanian cheag + -ar, from the word for rennet. MDA2 names the base in its variant ⟨cheug⟩. Wiktionary also mentions Vulgar Latin *clagorium, going back to coagulum…

It is inherited from Latin coccinus (“scarlet”), a shepherds' colour word applied to sheep. Wiktionary allows also the longer Latin form coccineus (“scarlet-dyed”). The Latin adjective is from…

It is formed from Romanian cerb (“stag”) + -ar, according to MDA2, and DELR lists it in the family of the noun for stag. Wiktionary also allows Latin cervārius (“of deer”), and Candrea–Densusianu…

It is inherited from Latin spurius (“illegitimate child”), as MDA2, Wiktionary and Ștef, after N. Drăganu, explain it. Ștef compares Italian spurio. The REW lists the Romanian variant spuriu under…

It is borrowed from French standard, with English standard beside it, as DEX and DILF give it; DLR, NODEX and MDA2 add borrowed from German Standard. Wiktionary names only French. Gabinschi takes it…

It is borrowed from French tatouage. The French noun is formed on tatouer (“to tattoo”) with the suffix -age. The French verb was borrowed in 1772 from English tattoo, first in a translation of…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *fībulāria, a derivative of Latin fībula (“pin, bolt, clasp”). The etymology goes back to Candrea-Hecht's study of the Latin elements of Romanian and is accepted by…

It is borrowed from French fonctionner, adapted after funcție. The French verb is formed on fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance”).

It is a back-formation from Romanian meriza (“to rest in the shade (of cattle)”), according to DLR, MDA2 and Ștef. Candrea and Densusianu took it straight from Latin merīdiēs (“midday”), with a…

1. The word for “to cling to, pester” is inherited from Latin alligō (“to bind to, fasten”), from ad- and ligō (“to bind”). The REW lists it with Italian allegare and French allier. Ciorănescu also…

It is borrowed from French photographie (“photography”), a word of the 19th century. The French word was formed in 1832 from photo- and -graphie, literally “writing with light”, from Ancient Greek…

1. The word for a big pig is formed from Romanian porc + -oi, with the augmentative suffix. The noun porc continues porcus (“pig”). 2. The word for a haystack is, for Ciorănescu, a derivative with…

The DLR and MDA2 take it as a derivative from Romanian șarpe (“snake”). Pușcariu instead proposed Vulgar Latin *serpentia, formed on serpēns (“snake”), and noted that the other plant name șerpariță…

It is the long infinitive of supraveghea, formed from Romanian supraveghea + -re. The verb is formed from Romanian supra- + veghea on the model of French surveiller, a calque of the French word.

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *dērēnō (“to break the loins”), a verb not recorded in writing, formed on Latin rēnēs (“kidneys, loins”) in the way that dēlumbō (“to break the back, exhaust”) was…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *agurō (“to foretell”), the popular form of classical augurō (“to foretell by augury”), from augur (“augur”). The /au/ became /a/ by dissimilation before a stressed…

1. The word for the cheque is borrowed from English check, with French chèque (itself from English) as a second model. DER gives English alone, while Tiktin, Scriban and Șăineanu take it from the…

It is borrowed from New Latin Paliurus, the scientific name of the plant, as DEX, MDA2 and the DLR explain it. Wiktionary instead takes it as inherited from Latin paliūrus (“Christ's thorn”). The…

It is borrowed from French pénis, with Latin pēnis as a second source. Wiktionary describes it as a learned borrowing from Latin alone. French borrowed the Latin word in 1618; in Latin it first…

1. The word for the blackthorn is formed from Romanian porumbă + -ar, from the name of its fruit, the sloe. DEX takes porumbă “sloe” as from Latin palumba, and MDA2 as *polumba. Ciorănescu lists the…

Ciorănescu takes it as inherited from Latin struppus (“strap, thong”), also stroppus, after Pascu and Candrea, and adds that the Latin word may have reached Romanian indirectly. The DEX gives the…

It is inherited from Latin vindēmiārius (“of the vintage”), from vindēmia (“grape harvest”), as MDA2, the DLR and Wiktionary give it. Ciorănescu, who lists it as a rare word under vin, says the…

It is probably inherited from Latin ad (“to”) + ante (“before”). DELR, following the DA, has the group develop into *adânte and then take its ⟨i⟩ from *inte, the form from ab + ⟨ante⟩ that underlies…

It is formed from Romanian sub- + sol, on the model of French sous-sol. Wiktionary gives only the Romanian parts. Marcu's dictionary of neologisms puts the French model alone. The French word is…

1. The word for a shift of workers is borrowed from French tour (“turn”), according to DEX, MDA2 and DN. The DLR and NODEX explain it instead as a singular formed in Romanian from ⟨ture⟩, the plural…

It is borrowed from French tournée. The DLR compares French tournoi (“tournament”) for the sporting sense. Graur lists it in the family of Latin tornō (“to turn on a lathe”), beside tur, retur and…

It is borrowed from French transfert. The French noun comes from Latin transferō (“to carry across”), a Latin verb. Scriban gives the same French source and separates the noun from the verb…