Romanian words from Latin
2429 Romanian words with Latin in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 38).
trădare
It is the long infinitive of trăda (“to betray”), formed from Romanian trăda + -re. The verb is a 19th-century learned loan from Latin trādō (“to hand over”), conjugated like da. MDA2 and Tiktin…
trădător
It is formed from Romanian trăda + -ător, from the verb “to betray” with the agent suffix. Ciorănescu and MDA2 point to the model of Italian traditore (“traitor”), and Scriban derives it from the…
traduce
It is borrowed from Latin trādūcō (“to lead across”) and at the same time borrowed from French traduire. Ciorănescu takes it from Latin in the 19th century and notes that it is conjugated like duce…
traducere
It is formed from Romanian traduce + -re, the long infinitive of the verb used as a noun of action. Traduce “to translate” is from Latin trādūcō and French traduire. Ciorănescu dates the Latin loan…
trage
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *tragō (“to pull”), a popular form of trahō (“to pull, drag, haul”). DER cites Pușcariu and the REW for the form with /g/. The DHLF explains it as a remodelling of…
tragedie
It is borrowed from French tragédie, and at the same time borrowed from Latin tragoedia, according to DEX; MDA2 and the DLR name tragedia as well, and the dictionaries give several models in the way…
transforma
It is borrowed from French transformer, with borrowed from Latin trānsfōrmō as a second source, as DEX, DN, MDN, MDA2 and the DLR all give it. Tiktin gives only the New Latin verb, Graur lists it…
transmite
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…
transpira
It is borrowed from French transpirer, one of the French neologisms of the 19th century. The French verb, recorded from 1503, is from Medieval Latin trānspīrō, formed from trāns- (“across”) and…
trata
It is borrowed from Italian trattare, and also borrowed from Latin tractāre, the two sources DEX and Wiktionary give. Other dictionaries add more models: MDA2 and DLR name Latin, Modern Greek…
tratament
It is borrowed from Latin tractamentum, adapted to the verb trata: the view of Tiktin, the DLR and MDA2. For one of its senses the DLR and MDA2 also compare German Traktament and French traitement…
tratat
The word for “treaty” is borrowed from Italian trattato according to DEX, Wiktionary and the neologism dictionaries. MDA2 and the DLR give it several sources, borrowed from Latin tractātus, German…
treaptă
It is inherited from Latin trāiecta, the feminine of trāiectus (“crossed”), past participle of trāiciō (“to throw across, to cross”). The verb trece “to pass” comes from the same Latin verb. Scriban…
trece
It is inherited from Latin trāiciō (“to throw across, carry over”). Elsewhere in Romance it survives in Portuguese tragir and Old Occitan tragir. The word survives in all four branches of Romanian…
trecere
It is formed from Romanian trece + -re, the long infinitive of the verb used as a noun. The verb is from Latin trāiciō (“to throw across, cross”), and survives in all four branches: Aromanian trec…
trei
It is inherited from Latin trēs (“three”). The Latin numeral goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. The word survives in all four branches: Aromanian trei, Megleno-Romanian trei and…
treiera
It is inherited from Latin tribulō (“to press; to thresh”), the verb of the threshing sledge, trībulum. The Latin verb meant “to press, squeeze” in Cato and “to oppress, afflict” in Church Latin…
tremura
It is inherited from Late Latin tremulō, a verb formed on Latin tremulus (“trembling”), from tremō (“to tremble”). Wiktionary dates the Latin verb to a 7th-century manuscript. The word survives in…
trepăda
It is inherited from Latin trepidō (“to hurry about in alarm”), a verb formed on trepidus (“anxious, agitated”). The REW glosses the Latin verb “to run to and fro” and gives Romanian as its only…
trib
It is a learned loan, borrowed from Latin tribus (“a division of the Roman people, tribe”), with French tribu as a second model, as the DLR, MDA2 and Scriban give it. DEX 2009, Tiktin and Wiktionary…
tribunal
It is borrowed from Latin tribūnal (“judgement seat”), taken over more than once: MDA2 names French tribunal, Latin and Polish trybunał as its sources, and the DLR Latin, Polish and French. Tiktin…
trifoi
It is inherited from Latin trifolium (“clover”), from tri- and folium (“leaf”), a calque of Ancient Greek τρίφυλλον (tríphullon). It survives in Aromanian as trifolj, and has cognates in Italian…
trimite
It is inherited from Latin trāmittō (“to send across, convey”), a variant of trānsmittō. The same Latin verb gave Old Italian tramettere, Old Occitan trametre and Catalan trametre. It survives in…
trist
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, the popular form of Latin trīstis (“sad, gloomy”). DEX, MDA2 and the DLR derive it directly from the classical form. Nocentini explains the Vulgar Latin…
tron
1. The word for the throne is borrowed from French trône, also borrowed from Latin thronus: DEX 2009, DILF and Ciorănescu give the French word, NODEX and MDN French and Latin. Tiktin gives the Greek…
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…
trunchi
It is inherited from Latin trunculus (“small trunk, stump”). Wiktionary reconstructs the syncopated form *trunclus. The Latin word is a diminutive of truncus (“trunk, torso”). De Vaan takes the noun…
tu
It is inherited from Latin tū (“you (singular)”). Wiktionary takes the Latin word from Proto-Italic and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; de Vaan reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European nominative as *ti(H)…
tufă
It is inherited from Latin tūfa (“a kind of helmet crest”), a late word recorded in Vegetius. Romanian widened the sense from the crest to a bush. Pușcariu argued that its presence in Romanian rules…
tulbura
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *turbulō (“to stir up, trouble”). Tiktin derives the Vulgar Latin verb from Latin turbō (“to disturb, confuse”) and compares turbulentus (“restless”). Wiktionary…
tulbure
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *turbulus (“troubled, cloudy”). DEX equates it with Latin turbidus (“disturbed, muddy”), and DLR and MDA2 compare turbulentus (“stormy, turbulent”); Wiktionary…
tumoare
It is borrowed from French tumeur, borrowed from Latin tumor (“swelling”): DEX, MDA2, the DLR and the neologism dictionaries name both, Wiktionary only French, Scriban only Latin. The French word is…
tun
The DLR, MDA2 and Graur take it as a back-formation from Romanian tuna (“to thunder”). The verb is from Latin tonō (“to thunder”). Ciorănescu and Tiktin give this view or the Latin noun discussed…
tuna
It is inherited from Latin tonō (“to thunder”). The Latin verb comes from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”), the root of English thunder too. It survives in Aromanian tun and…
tunde
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *tondō (“to shear”), a third-conjugation form that replaced Classical tondeō. The Latin verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to split, cut off”). It…
tunsoare
It is formed from Romanian tuns + -oare, from the participle and verbal noun of tunde (“to cut (hair), shear”). Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of the verb. Wiktionary compares Latin…
turba
It is inherited from Latin turbō (“to disturb, throw into confusion”), a verb formed on turba (“turmoil, crowd”). Pascu derived it from a *torvō formed on torvus (“grim, glaring”), which DER judges…
turmă
It is inherited from Latin turma (“troop of cavalry; crowd”). In Latin the word named a small squadron of horsemen; the OLD compares turba (“crowd”). The word survives in Aromanian as turmã and in…
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…
turtă
It is inherited from Latin turta (“round loaf, cake”). Ciorănescu takes it as a variant of torta, which most Romance forms continue; DEX marks it as a reconstructed form meaning “round bread”, and…
turtură
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *turtura, a feminine form of Latin turtur (“turtle dove”), according to MDA2 and the DLR. Wiktionary derives the word either from turturea or, more likely, from…
turturea
It is inherited from Late Latin turturella (“little turtle dove”), a diminutive of Latin turtur (“turtle dove”), according to Tiktin, the DLR, MDA2 and NODEX. The REW and Wiktionary also name the…
tuse
It is inherited from Latin tussis (“cough”). Pușcariu and the REW give the same source. The Latin word may come from tundō (“to beat”), with the doubled ⟨ss⟩ of an imitative word, or be imitative…
tuși
It is inherited from Latin tussiō (“to cough”), which is formed on tussis (“cough”), the source of Romanian tuse. Pușcariu and the REW give the same etymon. The verb survives south of the Danube as…
tușina
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *tōnsiōnō (“to shear”), a verb formed on Late Latin tōnsiō (“shearing”), which comes from Latin tondeō (“to shear, to clip”), according to DEX, MDA2, the DLR and…
ucide
It is inherited from Latin occīdō (“to kill”). The Latin verb is a compound of ob- and caedō (“to cut, kill”). The verb survives in all four branches, but south of the Danube it means “to hit”…
ucidere
It is formed from Romanian ucide + -re: the long infinitive of the verb “to kill”, used as a noun. The verb is from Latin occīdō (“to kill”).
ud
It is inherited from Latin ūdus (“wet, moist”). The Latin adjective is a contraction of ūvidus (“wet”). It survives in Megleno- and Istro-Romanian as ud and ud, and Ciorănescu gives the same form…
uda
It is inherited from Late Latin ūdō (“to wet”), a verb formed on ūdus (“wet”). Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of the adjective ud, but adds that it must go back to the Latin verb, as…
uger
It is inherited from Latin ūber (“breast, udder”), as DER, Tiktin, MDA2, the DLR and DEX agree. The Latin /b/ appears here as /g/, as in rug from rubus. Pușcariu and Tiktin explain the /g/ by the…
uib
It is inherited from Latin obvius (“in the way, meeting”), used as a noun, according to Bogrea, Candrea, Ciorănescu, the DLR and MDA2. CADE starts from the phrase in obvio (“in the way”). Wiktionary…
uita
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *oblītāre (“to forget”), formed on Latin oblītus (“forgotten”), the past participle of oblīvīscor (“to forget”). Ciorănescu gives the same source, after Cipariu…
ulcea
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ollicella, a diminutive of Latin olla (“pot”), according to DEX, MDA2, the DLR, Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu. The REW lists it among the derivatives of the…
ulm
It is inherited from Latin ulmus (“elm”), as all the dictionaries agree. It survives in Megleno-Romanian as ulm, beside an unclear uolum, and in Aromanian as ulmu. Its Romance cognates include…
ultim
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…
uman
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”…
umăr
It is inherited from Latin humerus (“shoulder”), a variant of umerus. The Latin word comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₃émsos (“shoulder”). The word survives in all four branches: Aromanian umir…
umbla
It is inherited from Latin ambulō (“to walk”), through a shortened Vulgar Latin form *amblō. The older Romanian form was îmbla, which later became umbla. Ciorănescu cites Diez, Candrea, Pușcariu and…
umbră
It is inherited from Latin umbra (“shadow, shade”). The word survives south of the Danube: Aromanian aumbrã and Megleno-Romanian umbră. Wiktionary suggests the Aromanian form may owe its initial…
umbros
Its origin is disputed. Wiktionary, Pușcariu (article 1802), the REW and Papahagi take it as inherited from Latin umbrōsus (“full of shade, shady”), and DEX gives that source beside a Romanian…