Aromanian words first recorded in the 18th century

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *accaptiō (“to catch”), formed with ad- on captiāre (“to chase, catch”), itself from captus (“caught”), the past participle of capiō (“to take”). Nikolaidis had…

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…

It is inherited from Latin afflō (“to blow on”), from ad- (“to”) and flō (“to blow”). De Vaan derives the simple verb, with a question mark, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”). The sense…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *afforās (“outside”), from Latin ad (“to”) and forās (“out of doors”). In Latin, forās expressed motion out of a house or a town. De Vaan traces ad to…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tantum (“so much”), from eccum (“here he is”) and tantus (“so great, so much”). Pascu explains the Aromanian forms through intermediate stages in which ⟨ct⟩…

It is borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἀμιρᾶς (amirâs, “emir, commander”), from Arabic أمير (ʾamīr, “commander, prince”). Papahagi starts from Turkish amir and has it reach Aromanian through the Greek…

It is inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”), as Meyer already saw in his edition of Kavalliotis. Romanian arie and Megleno-Romanian aryie have the same word. Further west it gave…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *astectō (“to wait”), an assimilated form of Latin adspectō (“to look at”), aspectō. Pascu explains the Latin verb, "to look at often or closely", as taking the…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille (“that one there”), from eccum (“here he is”) and ille (“that”). Papahagi and Pascu give the first part as ecce (“look!”), with a Late Latin *illus…

The verb is of disputed origin, and Papahagi leaves it unexplained. Wiktionary gives two views: the verb is either inherited from Vulgar Latin *begō, from Late Latin bīgō (“to put to the yoke”)…

It is from Aromanian banã (“life”) + -edz, the noun banã "life" with the verb suffix -edz. Wiktionary compares Albanian banoj (“to dwell”). The origin of banã is disputed. Pascu, after Jokl, takes…

It is inherited from Latin basilica (“basilica; church”), which Latin borrowed from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ). The Greek word is the feminine of βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”) used as a…

1. The horse is inherited from Latin caballus (“horse, especially a workhorse”). In Common Romance it replaced Latin equus as the word for "horse". It is common to the four Eastern Romance…

It is inherited from Latin quandō (“when”). The Oxford Latin Dictionary analyses the Latin word as quam (“how, as”) with the particle seen in dōnec (“until”), and compares Sanskrit कदा (kadā́…

It is inherited from Latin canis (“dog”). The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian câine, Megleno-Romanian cǫini and Istro-Romanian căre. In the west it gave Vegliote kuon…

It is inherited from Latin caput (“head”). Wiktionary derives it through a by-form, Vulgar Latin capus; the OLD records capus for caput in an inscription. Candrea and Densusianu note that the…

It is inherited from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”), through its accusative case, as Nikolaidis also derived it. The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian carne…

It is inherited from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”). The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian casă, Megleno-Romanian casă and Istro-Romanian cǫse. Further west it gave…

It is inherited from Latin quantus (“how great, how much”), and the adverb is its neuter quantum (“how much”), as Nikolaidis had said. Wiktionary and Ciorănescu add that it was probably blended with…

1. The knucklebone term is of unknown origin: Papahagi ends his article with a question mark instead of an etymon. 2. The tortoise word is of uncertain origin: DIARO considers it a loan from…

It is inherited from Latin petra (“rock, stone”), as Nikolaidis already said. Latin borrowed the word from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”); Lewis & Short note that the native Latin word was…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *quomo (“how”), a shortened form of Latin quōmodo (“in what way, how”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the loss of the end of the word by its unstressed position in…

It is inherited from Latin dō (“to give”). The Aromanian present presupposes a first person Vulgar Latin *dao in place of the classical form, as Meyer (after Meyer-Lübke) and Ciorănescu (after…

It is inherited from Latin dē (“from, of”) + ad (“to”) + ūnum (“one”), as Papahagi and Meyer derive it.

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *doi (“two”), feminine *doae, as Papahagi reconstructs it. Pascu starts from *dui, that is Latin duo (“two”) with the plural ending -ī, and the feminine duae…

It is inherited from Latin diēs (“day”). Pascu explains the shape of the word by analogy: the articled form was remodelled after that of steauã (“star”), which gave a new singular ending, and the…

It is inherited from Latin faciō (“to make, do”), a verb that, as Pascu lists its senses, also meant to create, to build, to say, to order and to feign, and in the passive to become. Nikolaidis…

It is inherited from Latin fēta (“a female that has just given birth”), the noun use of the feminine of the adjective fētus (“having recently given birth”). Pascu explains the Latin word as a…

It is inherited from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”). In Latin the word first meant the hearth, and only later, as in the Romance languages, the fire itself. De Vaan finds no sound etymology for…

Papahagi and Ciorănescu take it as borrowed from Modern Greek φρίκη (fríki, “horror, shudder”); Capidan derives the Megleno-Romanian word from the same Greek source. Pascu instead files it among the…

It is inherited from Latin gula (“gullet, throat”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *gulā; he rejects the traditional derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʷl-h₂- on phonetic grounds and thinks…

It is inherited from Latin sum (“I am”), combined with fīō (“to become, happen”): the present escu continues the forms of sum, while the citation form and the other h- forms come from fīō…

It is borrowed from Modern Greek χώρα (chóra, “land, country; village”), a word Wiktionary takes straight from Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra). Pascu sets beside it the diminutive χωρίον (choríon…

It is inherited from Latin anima (“breath, soul”), which Pascu glosses soul and heart; he derives the Aromanian form through an older *înemă. De Vaan gives anima as a derivative of animus, from…

It is inherited from Latin intrō (“to go into, enter”), formed from the adverb intrā (“within, inside”). De Vaan lists both among the derivatives of inter (“between”), from Proto-Italic *ntero-…

It is inherited from Late Latin eo (“I”), the Late Latin form of Latin egō (“I”), the etymon DDA also gives. Candrea and Densusianu call the loss of the g unexplained. The object forms have their…

It is borrowed from Modern Greek λείπω (leípo, “to be absent, to lack”), with the Aromanian verb suffix -escu added to the Greek stem. Pascu and Ciorănescu take the stem from the aorist ἔλειψα…

It is inherited from Latin locus (“place”). The Latin noun had an older form stlocus. Walde–Hofmann and Pokorny derived it from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place”), but de Vaan objects that…

It is inherited from Latin lucror (“to gain, make a profit”), with an Aromanian verb suffix; Papahagi cites REW for the Latin verb meaning "to gain", and Pascu, Nikolaidis and Ciorănescu give the…

It is inherited from Latin lucrum (“gain, profit”), as Meyer already noted. Wiktionary also allows a back-formation from the verb lucredz. The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages…

1. The adverb is inherited from Latin māne (“in the morning, early”). De Vaan explains the Latin word as a derivative of the adjective mānus (“good”), from Proto-Italic *māno- and…

It is probably inherited from Latin mās, marem (“male”), the idea of size having been linked with that of maleness, as Pascu and Candrea–Densusianu explain it. Candrea–Densusianu think the sense was…

It is inherited from Latin mola (“millstone, (plural) mill”). In Latin the word meant a millstone, and in the plural a mill. De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of molō (“to grind in a mill”) and…

It is inherited from Latin multus (“much, many”), and the adverb continues the neuter multum (“much, very”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *molto-, and links it, with doubts about the root, to…

It is inherited from Latin mūrus (“wall”). REW lists the Aromanian word among the descendants of the Latin noun. Romanian mur in the sense of wall is a learned borrowing from Latin of the Romantic…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *inappoe, as Pascu reconstructs it. Candrea and Densusianu derive the same adverb from Latin in (“in”), ad (“to”) and post (“behind, after”); Papahagi's index of…

Its origin is debated. According to Pascu it is inherited from Latin illāc (“by that way, there”) followed by intrō (“inside, within”), and compares Romanian lăuntru and Italian laentro; Candrea and…

1. The adverb is inherited from Latin unquam (“ever, at any time”) according to Pascu, Candrea and Densusianu, Capidan and Ciorănescu. Candrea and Densusianu explain the initial n of the Aromanian…

It is inherited from Latin nox (“night”), in its accusative form. De Vaan traces the Latin noun to Proto-Italic *nokʷ-t- and Proto-Indo-European *nógʷʰ-t-s (“night”), the source also of Ancient…

It is inherited from Latin novus (“new”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *nowo- and Proto-Indo-European *neuo- (“new, young”). Its cognates include Ancient Greek νέος (néos) and the English…

It is inherited from Latin interrogō (“to ask, question”), formed from inter (“between”) and rogō (“to ask”). The sound shape is irregular: Pușcariu, after Meyer-Lübke, and Popovici explain the b…

It is inherited from Latin nōn (“not”). Nikolaidis gave the same Latin source. The adverb is shared by the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian nu, Megleno-Romanian nu and Istro-Romanian nu…

It is inherited from Latin nōmen (“name”), as Meyer already noted. Pascu alone files it among the Greek loans, from Modern Greek ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). The word is common to the four Eastern Romance…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *invitiō (“to teach”), from vitium (“fault, vice”). Pascu explains the sense from "to spoil, corrupt" through "to make someone take on bad habits" to "to train in…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin oclus, the syncopated form of oculus (“eye”); Papahagi and Pascu give the Latin word in its classical form. De Vaan traces oculus to Proto-Italic *ok(e)lo- and…

It is inherited from Latin homō (“human being, man”), and its plural continues the Latin plural hominēs. The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian om, Megleno-Romanian uom…

1. The stake is inherited from Latin pālus (“stake, post”). The OLD derives the Latin noun from pangō (“to fix, insert firmly”), and compares Ancient Greek πάσσαλος (pássalos, “peg”). De Vaan…

It is inherited from Latin pars (“part, piece”), as Nikolaidis already saw. De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *parti- (“part”) and, following Schrijver, explains it as a pre-Latin formation from the…

It is inherited from Latin pecorārius (“herdsman”), a derivative of pecus (“livestock, cattle”) with the suffix -ārius. Lewis and Short record the Latin word only once, as a farmer of the public…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *poteō (“to be able”), a regularised form of Latin possum (“I can”) that replaced the classical verb. DÉRom reconstructs the verb for Proto-Romance with the sense…