Romanian words from Latin
2429 Romanian words with Latin in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 29).
plăpând
DEX and Wiktionary give inherited from Vulgar Latin *palpabundus, from palpō (“to stroke, caress”), an etymology that Ciorănescu traces to Cihac, Candrea, Pușcariu and the REW. Candrea and…
pleca
It is inherited from Latin plicō (“to fold”). The word survives in Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian as Aromanian plec and Megleno-Romanian plec, both meaning “to bend” and “to leave”. Its Romance…
plimba
It is inherited from Latin perambulō (“to walk through”), formed with per- (“through”) on ambulō (“to walk”). MDA2 gives the etymon as praeambulō. The older forms preumbla and primbla show the…
plin
It is inherited from Latin plēnus (“full”). The Latin word comes from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from an e-grade variant of Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”); it is related to Ancient Greek πλήρης…
ploaie
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *plovia (“rain”), a popular form of Latin pluvia. The REW and Candrea and Densusianu start from a reduced form *ploia; Ciorănescu, following Pascu, holds that a…
plointe
It is inherited from Latin plovēns (“raining”), an old form of pluēns, the present participle of pluō (“to rain”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the vowel /o/ of the Romanian word as kept under the…
plop
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ploppus, a popular form of Latin pōpulus (“poplar”) with the /l/ moved forward (metathesis). Tiktin sets out the steps as *poplu and then *plopu. MDA2 gives the…
ploua
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin plovō (“to rain”), the popular form of Classical pluō. The popular verb is attested in the imperfect in Petronius and lived on beside the classical one. Romanian…
plumb
It is inherited from Latin plumbum (“lead”). Aromanian pl'umbu means both “lead” and “bullet”. The Romance cognates include Italian piombo, Occitan plom, French plomb, Spanish plomo and Portuguese…
plus
It is a learned borrowed from Latin plūs (“more”). MDA2, the DLR and Tiktin also name German Plus and French plus as models, and DN adds Italian. Ciorănescu dates it to the 19th century, but the…
poamă
It is inherited from Latin pōma (“fruits”), the plural of pōmum (“fruit”), taken as a feminine singular. Pușcariu set out this reading of the plural, and the REW lists the Romanian word under the…
poarcă
It is inherited from Latin porca (“sow”), the feminine of porcus (“pig”). Pușcariu and the REW give the same etymon. The word survives in all four branches: Aromanian poarcã, Megleno-Romanian poarcă…
poartă
It is inherited from Latin porta (“gate, door”). The word survives in all four branches: Aromanian poartă, Megleno-Romanian poartă and Istro-Romanian poartę. The Romance cognates include Italian…
poimâine
It is a compound, from Latin post (“after”) + māne (“in the morning; tomorrow”). Ciorănescu lists it among the compounds of mâine, with poi from post, as in apoi and păi. It is found south of the…
policar
It is a 19th-century learned borrowed from Latin pollicāris (“of the thumb”), an adjective formed on pollex (“thumb”). Șăineanu also called it a neologism after the Latin word. Philippide held that…
politic
It is borrowed from Latin polīticus, with Modern Greek πολιτικός (politikós) and French politique named as further sources. MDA2 and the DLR add German Politik, Politikus and politisch to these…
politică
It is borrowed from Latin politicus, Modern Greek πολιτική (politikí) or πολιτικός (politikós), French politique or German Politik: the dictionaries treat the noun with the adjective politic and…
pom
It is inherited from Latin pōmus (“fruit tree”), which stood beside pōmum (“fruit”), the source of poamă. De Vaan explains the Latin word, with some doubt, as “what is taken off, picked”, from a…
pomet
1. The word for the orchard is inherited from Latin pōmētum (“orchard”), according to DEX, NODEX, MDA2 and the DLR. Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of pom and says it may continue the…
pompă
1. The word for the pump is borrowed from French pompe, as DEX, MDN, DILF and Wiktionary give it. DN adds Italian pompa, and Tiktin names the Italian and French words and German Pumpe as sources…
popor
Pușcariu, the REW, Tiktin and MDA2 take it as inherited from Latin populus (“people”). Its Romance cognates include Italian popolo, Catalan poble, Occitan poble, French peuple, Spanish pueblo and…
popular
It is borrowed from French populaire, the source DEX, the DLR, MDA2, MDN and DILF name. Tiktin says it was modelled on the French word, and Ciorănescu lists it as a French loan among the derivatives…
por
1. The word for the pore is borrowed from French pore, also directly Latin porus (“passage, channel in the body”), as DEX, DN and MDN give it, a neologism with several sources. MDA2 adds Modern…
porc
It is inherited from Latin porcus (“pig”), a word found throughout Romance. Latin had it from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young pig”), perhaps originally “digger”; related words are Lithuanian…
porcar
It is inherited from Latin porcārius (“swineherd”) according to Tiktin, Candrea–Densusianu, Șăineanu and the REW. Ciorănescu lists it under porc and says it could come straight from Latin, as…
porcoi
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…
portar
It is formed from Romanian poartă + -ar. Ciorănescu says it could also continue inherited from Late Latin portārius (“doorkeeper”) directly, as Pușcariu and the REW hold. Cihac and Șăineanu gave the…
porumb
It is inherited from Latin palumbus (“wood pigeon”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the initial ⟨po-⟩ for expected ⟨pă-⟩ by the unstressed vowel turning to /o/ after the labial. Wiktionary traces…
porumbă
DEX takes the word for the sloe directly as inherited from Latin palumba (“wood pigeon”), and MDA2 from a Latin *polumba. Candrea and Densusianu started from a diminutive *palumbula, with…
porumbar
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…
posibil
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…
poziție
It is borrowed from Latin positio (“a placing”), with French position and German Position as further models: MDA2 and the DLR name the three together. Wiktionary and the DN put French first, and…
practic
It is borrowed from French pratique and directly borrowed from Latin practicus (“active, effective”), as DEX, the DILF, NODEX and Wiktionary give it. MDA2 adds Modern Greek πρακτικός (praktikós) and…
pradă
It is inherited from Latin praeda (“booty, plunder”). The Latin word comes from an older form with prae- and the root of prehendō (“to seize”). Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. It…
prăda
It is inherited from Latin praedō (“to plunder”), according to DEX, MDA2, Tiktin, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW. Latin had this active form beside the usual deponent praedor. Wiktionary sets up…
prânz
It is inherited from Latin prandium (“late breakfast, luncheon”). Aromanian keeps the noun as prãndzu. Its Romance cognates include Dalmatian prinz, Italian pranzo and Sardinian prandzu. De Vaan and…
prânzi
It is inherited from Latin prandeō (“to eat the morning or midday meal”), with a change of conjugation, according to Ciorănescu, who follows Densusianu, Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW…
precis
It is borrowed from French précis, partly also borrowed from Latin praecīsus (“cut off; abrupt”), as DEX, MDA2 and the DLR give it. Wiktionary names only French, Scriban only Latin, and the DN adds…
prefera
It is borrowed from French préférer, a neologism of the 19th century. MDA2, DLR and Marcu & Maneca also compare the Latin source of the French verb, Latin praeferō (“to carry before; to prefer”)…
pregeta
It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *prigitō (“to hesitate”), a form with the consonants transposed, from Late Latin pīgritor (“to be slow”). Ciorănescu follows Candrea–Densusianu, an article…
prelua
It is formed from Romanian pre- + lua (“to take”). Marcu and Maneca see the modern verb as modelled on French prélever and German übernehmen. lua itself is from Latin levō (“to lift”).
prelung
It is inherited from Latin perlongus (“very long”), an intensive formed with per- on longus (“long”). Ciorănescu, who treats the word in the family of lung, gives first a formation from Romanian…
premândă
It is borrowed from Hungarian prémonda, a word of Transylvanian Hungarian folk speech. Tamás records the Hungarian dialect forms prămonda and peremonda for a payment in kind to workers, and the…
premiu
It is a learned borrowed from Latin praemium (“reward, prize”). MDA2 and Tiktin add borrowed from German Prämie as a second model, and Marcu and Maneca compare Italian premio. Ciorănescu dates the…
preocupa
It is borrowed from French préoccuper, and DEX and MDN also name borrowed from Latin praeoccupō. Pontbriant in 1862 analysed it as pre- and the Latin verb for “to occupy”. The French verb was…
preot
It is inherited from Latin prĕbĭter, a popular variant of presbyter (“priest”), which is from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros, “elder”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the variant as a…
prepara
It is borrowed from French préparer (“to prepare”), one of the French neologisms of the 19th century. DEX, Marcu and Maneca, Marcu and Wiktionary name borrowed from Latin praeparō (“to make ready…
prepinge
It is probably inherited from Latin perpendō (“to weigh carefully”), as Ciorănescu holds after Densusianu and Bogrea. Wiktionary also takes it from the Latin verb. The Latin verb is formed with per-…
presiune
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…
presus
It is a compound from Romanian pre + sus, of the old form of the preposition pe and the adverb meaning “up”. The preposition is from Latin per, and the adverb is from Latin sūsum (“upwards”)…
preț
It is inherited from Latin pretium (“price, value; reward”). De Vaan traces the Latin word to *preti (“against”), with cognates such as Ancient Greek πρός (prós). Its Romance cognates include…
pretinde
It is borrowed from French prétendre (“to claim”), conjugated like întinde. The French verb is from Latin praetendō (“to stretch forward; to allege”), formed from Latin prae- + tendō. Tiktin, MDA2…
prețios
It is borrowed from Latin pretiosus (“costly, precious”), with French précieux as a second source: MDA2 and DLR name these two, and DEX, Tiktin and the neologism dictionaries add Italian prezioso…
prevești
Ciorănescu, after Candrea, explains it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *perviescō, a derivative of viēscō (“to shrivel, wither”). The REW, after Giuglea, sets up *pervescīō “to wither” for the…
previnge
It is inherited from Latin pervincō (“to win a complete victory over”), formed with per- on vincō (“to conquer”). Ciorănescu compares învinge, the common verb from the simple Latin verb.
prezent
It is borrowed from Latin praesēns (“present”), as well as borrowed from French présent, with Italian presente as a further model, one of the neologisms with several sources. Ciorănescu names only…
prezenta
It is borrowed from French présenter: DLR, MDA2 and Wiktionary give French alone. DEX, DN, MDN and DILF add borrowed from Latin praesentō (“to show, present”), and Tiktin names Italian presentare as…
prezență
It is borrowed from French présence, as DEX, the DLR and Wiktionary give it. MDA2 and Marcu add borrowed from Latin praesentia, and Tiktin and Scriban give only the Latin word. The DLR separates the…
pricepe
It is inherited from Latin percipiō (“to take in, perceive, understand”). Candrea and Densusianu derive the old form precepe directly from the Latin verb, and the modern form from it by…
prier
It is inherited from Latin Aprīlis (“April”), the popular name of the month beside the learned aprilie. Candrea–Densusianu derive it through the stages ⟨*aprire⟩, with Latin /l/ becoming /r/ between…