Romanian words from French
141 Romanian words with French in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 3).
serviciu
It is borrowed from French service (“service”), and also borrowed from Latin servitium (“slavery, service”). MDA2, DEX, DLRM and Wiktionary name both sources, and Tiktin names French as the model…
sex
It is borrowed from French sexe, at the same time borrowed from Latin sexus, one of the learned words of the 19th century. DEX, MDA2, the DLR and Tiktin give both sources, while Scriban and…
simplu
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…
sincer
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…
sistem
It is borrowed from French système, and before that, in the 18th century, it was taken from the Modern Greek σύστημα (sýstima). MDA2 names several models at once: the Modern Greek word, Latin…
situație
It is borrowed from French situation, with Latin situātiō named beside it as a second source. DEX 2009 and Wiktionary give only the French word, Tiktin the French and Italian situazione, DN the…
special
It is a neologism that the dictionaries derive from several languages at once. For DEX and MDN it is borrowed from French spécial together with Latin speciālis; in MDA2 and the DLR it is also…
spectacol
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…
suc
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…
super
It is borrowed from French super (“great”). The French word goes back to Latin super (“over, above”), which Romanian also inherited as the preposition spre. The Latin word continues…
susține
It is borrowed from Latin sustineō (“to hold up, support”), borrowed from French soutenir, fitted to the conjugation of ține. MDA2 and the DLR name only the Latin verb, conjugated like that one…
telefon
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…
termina
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…
test
It is borrowed from French test, with English test as a second source, a term of psychology. MDA2 gives French and English too, and Wiktionary French only. French took it in 1893 from the English…
tip
It is borrowed from French type, and DEX and MDN also name Latin typus (“figure, image”) as a source. Ciorănescu gives only the French word. Tiktin and MDA2 add the Greek form, and MDA2 names Modern…
trufă
1. The word for the truffle is borrowed from French truffe. DN adds Italian truffa and Occitan trufa as further models. The French word came through Old Occitan from Late Latin tufera of the…
turna
1. The word for “to pour” is inherited from Latin tornō (“to turn on a lathe, to round off”). The Latin verb is formed on tornus (“lathe”). It survives in all four branches: Aromanian tornu…
verifica
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…
victimă
It is borrowed from French victime, with Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”) as a second model: a neologism with two models. Tiktin takes it from the Latin word alone, and Wiktionary from French…
voma
Its origin is disputed. According to Tiktin and the DLR, it is inherited from Latin vomō (“to vomit”), and DEXI and NODEX agree. The older forms of the third conjugation, an infinitive voame and its…
zonă
It is borrowed from French zone, as DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary give it. Tiktin names Greek, Latin and Italian zona as its sources, and NODEX adds Latin zōna (“belt; zone”). The French word is a…