Romanian words from Latin
2429 Romanian words with Latin in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 27).
oxigen
It is a scientific term of the late 18th century that reached Romanian from several languages: the DLR, MDA2 and Tiktin name borrowed from New Latin oxygenium, borrowed from French oxygène, also…
păcat
It is inherited from Latin peccātum (“error, sin”). The Latin noun is the neuter past participle of peccō (“to err, sin”). The word survives in all four branches: Aromanian picat, Megleno-Romanian…
pace
It is inherited from Latin pācem (“peace”), the accusative of the Latin noun. Wiktionary takes the Latin word from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-; de Vaan reconstructs *peh₂ḱ- (“agreement”), the root…
pacient
It is borrowed from Latin patiēns (“enduring, suffering”), with French patient, German Patient and Italian paciente as further models, as DEX and MDN give it. MDA2 and the DLR name the Latin, French…
pacific
It is a neologism with several models, as the dictionaries give them: borrowed from Latin pācificus (“making peace, peaceable”), with French pacifique and Italian pacifico as further models. MDA2…
păcuină
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…
păcură
It is inherited from Late Latin picula (“pitch”), a diminutive of pix (“pitch”). The Latin word comes from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”). Its Romance cognates include Dalmatian pecla, Italian…
păcurar
1. The word for the shepherd is inherited from Latin pecorārius, recorded in Latin for a farmer of the public pastures and herds. The REW starts from a form with the sense “herdsman”. The Latin word…
păcure
It is inherited from Latin pecus (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Indo-European *péḱ-os (“livestock”). Wiktionary takes it from the plural of an older variant păc (plural pecuri), which the DLR…
păducel
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *peducellus, a diminutive formed in place of peduculus (“louse”). Wiktionary gives a second view: a variant of pedicellus (“small louse”) shaped by that word, which…
păduche
It is inherited from Latin peduculus (“louse”), a variant of pēdīculus, which Petronius already uses in the form peduclus. The Latin word is a diminutive of pēdis (“louse”), from Proto-Indo-European…
pădure
It is inherited from Late Latin padūlem (“swamp”), a form with metathesis of palūdem (“swamp, marsh”). The word survives south of the Danube: Aromanian pădure, and Megleno-Romanian păduri only in a…
păgân
It is inherited from Late Latin pāgānus (“heathen”), the Christian sense of Latin pāgānus (“of the country, villager”). The Latin word is formed on pāgus (“country district”). It survives south of…
pagină
It is a learned loan, borrowed from Latin pāgina (“page, column of writing”). DEX 2009 and the neologism dictionaries give several models at once, Latin with Italian pagina and German Pagina, an…
pai
It is inherited from Latin palea (“chaff, straw”). The Latin feminine was taken as a neuter plural, giving Romanian paie “straw”, and the singular “a straw” was formed back from it. The Latin word…
păi
Its origin is disputed. DELR, following Tiktin, Candrea–Densusianu and the DLR, takes it as more probably a shortening from Romanian apoi (“then, afterwards”), with its variant apăi. The DEX and…
pâine
It is inherited from Latin pānis (“bread”), continued in its accusative pānem. The Latin word may come from *peh₂- (“to feed, to graze”). De Vaan notes the usual link, through an older stem, with…
păinichiu
It is probably inherited from Latin pāniculus, which Latin dictionaries refer to pānicula (“tuft, panicle”). Wiktionary also allows a derivative of pānicum (“panic grass, millet”) and compares Old…
păioară
It is inherited from Latin palliola (“small cloak, hood”), the Latin plural taken as a feminine singular. Wiktionary writes it as Vulgar Latin *palliōla. The Latin word is a diminutive of pallium…
palat
1. The word for the palate is borrowed from Latin palātum (“palate”), with Italian palato as a second model according to DEX and MDN. DEX and the DLR compare French palais. Ciorănescu treats it as a…
palid
It is borrowed from Latin pallidus (“pale”), together with Italian pallido, a 19th-century neologism. Tiktin gives only the Italian word and Wiktionary takes it from Italian, while Scriban gives…
păliur
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…
palmă
It is inherited from Latin palma (“palm of the hand”). Wiktionary traces the Latin word to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. It survives in all four branches: Aromanian palmã, Megleno-Romanian palmă…
paltin
It is inherited from Latin platanus (“plane tree”), which is from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos). Ciorănescu supposes a variant Vulgar Latin *plătinus with metathesis of /l/, which Wiktionary…
pământ
It is inherited from Latin pavīmentum (“floor of beaten earth or stones”), probably through the popular form paumentum, which the grammarian Julian records. Pușcariu reconstructed the same form with…
pană
1. The word for the feather is inherited from Latin pinna (“feather, wing”). Scriban and Wiktionary also name the variant penna, and Nocentini notes that the two Latin forms merged in Romance. The…
până
It is probably inherited from Latin paene (“almost”) followed by ad (“to”), “almost to”. Ciorănescu, citing Cipariu, Pușcariu, Tiktin and the REW, accepts this source but finds the derivation…
pănăta
It is inherited from Latin paeniteō (“to cause regret; to regret”), with a change of conjugation. The etymology is Candrea and Densusianu's and Tiktin's, and the REW has it; Tiktin gives it with…
pântece
It is inherited from Latin pantex (“belly, paunch, guts”), from its accusative ⟨panticem⟩. Diez, Pușcariu, Candrea and Densusianu and the REW give the same etymon. The Latin noun was a colloquial…
pănură
It is inherited from Latin paenula (“hooded cloak”), according to Ciorănescu, MDA2, DEX and Wiktionary. The Latin word is from Ancient Greek φαινόλης (phainólēs, “thick upper garment, cloak”)…
pânză
Its origin is uncertain. Ciorănescu's source is inherited from Vulgar Latin *pandea (“woven cloth”), an etymon he calls generally accepted, though each author explains it differently. He takes it as…
paos
It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *pausum (“rest”), formed on Latin pausō (“to cease, rest”), which is formed on pausa (“pause”). A neuter pausum (“respite”) is attested once, in an African…
papă
1. The word for food in children's speech is inherited from Latin pappa (“food (a child's word)”), itself a nursery word. Ciorănescu calls it an expressive creation that may come straight from the…
păpa
It is inherited from Latin pappō (“to eat soft food”), according to MDA2, DEX, the DLR, Șăineanu and Wiktionary. The REW lists it with Italian pappare, Sardinian pappare, Old French paper and…
papură
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *papura, a popular form of Latin papȳrus (“papyrus”), which is from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros). Ciorănescu calls the intermediate form probable, citing…
par
1. The word for the stake is inherited from Latin pālus (“stake”). The Latin word comes from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, a derivative of *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix”)…
păr
1. The word for the pear tree is inherited from Latin pirus (“pear tree”). It survives in all four branches: Aromanian per, Megleno-Romanian per and Istro-Romanian per. Besides Romanian, the Latin…
pară
1. The word for the flame is borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пара (para, “steam, vapour, smoke”). The same noun means “steam” in Bulgarian па́ра (pára) and the other Slavic languages, and goes…
părâng
It is inherited from Latin pānicum (“Italian millet”), the Latin name of foxtail millet. Ciorănescu follows Philippide, Pușcariu, Candrea and Densusianu and the REW in this etymology. The Latin word…
părângă
It is inherited from Latin palanga (“carrying pole”), the popular form of phalanga, which is from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log, roller, beam”). Latin had the word in the plural for the poles…
păraț
Ciorănescu takes it as inherited from Latin palātum (“palate”), with a singular rebuilt from the plural, following Candrea and Densusianu and the REW. Tiktin and MDA2 take it from palātium…
paraulă
Its origin is unknown to DLR and MDA2. Wiktionary takes it as probably inherited from Latin parabola (“comparison; word”), which is from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), and compares Italian…
parazit
It is borrowed from Latin parasītus (“guest; parasite”), with German Parasit and French parasite as further sources: DEX, MDA2, the DLR and DILF give all three sources. Tiktin takes it from the…
parc
It is borrowed from French parc, which is from Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”), recorded in the 8th-century Lex Ripuaria. The Medieval Latin word is either a borrowing from Frankish *parrik…
părea
It is inherited from Latin pāreō (“to appear”). The verb survives as Aromanian par, also ampar. Its Romance cognates include Italian parere, Occitan parer, Old French paroir, Spanish parecer and…
părere
It is the long infinitive of părea (“to seem”), formed from Romanian părea + -re and used as a noun. The verb is from Latin pāreō (“to appear”). Italian parere (“opinion”) is a parallel noun made…
păresimi
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *quaresima (“Lent”), the spoken form of quadrāgēsima (“the fortieth (day); Lent”), the feminine of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”). Ciorănescu cites Candrea, Pușcariu…
pârghie
It is probably inherited from Latin pergula, which meant a projection on the front of a building and, according to Du Cange, also a small beam. Ciorănescu follows Pascu and Scriban here. Scriban…
părinte
It is inherited from Latin parēns (“parent, father”), continuing the accusative parentem. The Latin noun is an old participle of pariō (“to give birth to, beget”). The word survives in Aromanian…
parte
It is inherited from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), from its accusative partem. De Vaan follows Schrijver in taking the Latin noun from the stem of pariō (“to bring forth”), with an original…
parțial
It is borrowed from Latin partiālis (“partial, forming a part”), with French partiel as a second source. Tiktin gives a learned Latin source, partly through other languages; Scriban names Medieval…
particulă
It is borrowed from French particule and directly borrowed from Latin particula (“a small part”), the double source that DEX, DLR and the neologism dictionaries give. MDA2 names the same two…
particular
It is a learned borrowed from Latin particulāris (“concerning a part”), with borrowed from German partikular, borrowed from Italian particolare, borrowed from French particulier as further models…
pas
1. The word for “step, pace” is inherited from Latin passus (“step, pace”). Its Romance cognates include Italian passo, French pas, Spanish paso and Portuguese passo, and Albanian pas (“fathom”)…
păs
It is inherited from Latin pēnsum (“weight; a load”), the neuter of the past participle of pendō (“to weigh”). Wiktionary takes it from a spoken form *pēsum. Ciorănescu cites Pușcariu, Candrea and…
păsa
1. The word for “to care, matter” is inherited from Latin pēnsō (“to weigh”), the frequentative of pendō (“to hang, weigh”). Ciorănescu, following Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW, takes it…
pasăre
It is inherited from Latin passer (“sparrow, small bird”), from the popular accusative ⟨passarem⟩ for classical ⟨passerem⟩. In Latin the word meant “sparrow” and also “bird”. Of the sister branches…
păsat
It is inherited from Latin pīnsātum (“pounded”), a participle of pīnsō (“to pound, crush”) in its first-conjugation form, so “something pounded”. Tiktin rejects pēnsātum, which could mean “pressed”…
pasiune
It is a borrowing with several sources, as Romanian dictionaries give it: borrowed from Latin passio (“suffering; passion”), borrowed from French passion, borrowed from German Passion, borrowed from…
păstaie
Its origin is uncertain. The most widely cited view takes it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *pistālia, from pistō (“to pound”), a frequentative of pīnsō (“to stamp, crush”), because pods are beaten…