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Aromanian words from Latin words first recorded in the 3rd century

3 Aromanian words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 3rd century, earliest Latin record first.

1. nãinti

   220

   from Latin abante

   It is inherited from Late Latin abante (“in front, before”), with the prefix in (“in”) before it, as Candrea–Densusianu and Capidan reconstruct it. Wiktionary analyses the Aromanian word as n- added…

2. adun

   250–317

   from Latin aduno

   It is inherited from Latin adūnō (“to unite, make one”). The verb is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian aduna, Megleno-Romanian dun and Istro-Romanian aduru. The western cognates…

3. dit

   300–399

   from Latin deintro

   It is inherited from Latin deintro (“from within”), a compound of dē (“from, down from”) and intrō (“inside, within”). Papahagi derives the short form through the stages di tu and di tru, that is…

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