Aromanian words from Latin
102 Aromanian words with Latin in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
acats
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…
aclo
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum illōc (“look, there”), a compound of eccum (“here he is!”) and illōc (“to that place, there”). The word is common to Eastern Romance: Romanian acolo…
aestu
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *istus (“this”), the form taken by Latin iste (“that (of yours)”) in Romance. Pascu explains the initial a- by the analogy of atsestu and atsistu; from the oblique…
aflu
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…
afoarã
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…
ãlj
The pronoun ãlj is inherited from Latin illī (“to him, to her”), the dative singular of ille (“that”). Pascu files the forms under the pronoun el, from *illus, the popular form of ille, and explains…
altu
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *altru, the spoken form of Latin alter (“the other (of two), second”): Pascu gives its feminine and neuter in the spoken forms altra and altrum, for classical…
am
1. The verb “to have” is inherited from Latin habeō (“to have, hold”). Wiktionary notes that the 1st person form and some others may be analogical, built on an old form of the 1st person plural, or…
ãn
The preposition ãn “in” is inherited from Latin in (“in, into”). De Vaan traces it to Proto-Italic *en and Proto-Indo-European *h₁(e)n (“in”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the forms: before a…
apã
It is inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). The labiovelar consonant became p here, as in the Aromanian numeral for "four" from quattuor. De Vaan traces aqua to Proto-Italic *akwā- (“water”), with a…
armãn
1. The word for an Aromanian is inherited from Latin rōmānus (“Roman”), from Rōma (“Rome”) and the suffix -ānus. The initial a- is the usual Aromanian development before a Latin initial r-. The same…
aryi
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…
ashi
It is inherited from Late Latin ac sīc (“and so”), a Latin phrase of ac (“and”) and sīc (“thus, so”) that is attested in the Itinerarium Egeriae. Pascu derived it instead from a compound of eccum…
atsel
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…
atumtsea
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad tunce (“at that time”), which Pascu explains as ad (“to, at”) and tunc (“then”) reinforced with the particle -ce. Ciorănescu reconstructs *ad tunc ce. De Vaan…
bag
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”)…
bun
It is inherited from Latin bonus (“good”). Pascu derives the noun bun "the good" from the neuter bonum (“moral good, virtue”). The word is common to Eastern Romance: Romanian bun, Megleno-Romanian…
cã
It is inherited from Latin quod (“that; because”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the vowel by the change of o to ă in other unstressed monosyllables. Nikolaidis hesitated between quia (“because”)…
caftu
It is inherited from Latin, but which Latin verb it continues is disputed. According to Papahagi, Pascu, and Katsanis and Dinas, it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *cautō (“to take care, to look…
cal
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…
cali
It is inherited from Latin callis (“rough track, path”), a Latin word for a rough track or mountain path. Its further origin is unclear: de Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *kalni- or *kalsi- with a…
cãndu
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…
cãni
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…
cap
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…
cari
It is inherited from Latin quālis (“of what kind”). Pascu takes the genitive–dative a cui from cui, the dative of quī (“who, which”). In Latin, quālis is formed from the relative stem of quī with…
carni
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…
carti
It is inherited from Latin charta (“papyrus paper, a sheet of it”). Pascu explains the ending through the plural: Latin charta first gave a singular in -ã, and the singular in -e was then made from…
casã
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…
cãt
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…
cãtrã
It is inherited from Latin contra (“against, opposite”), which in Latin meant "in front of, against". De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *kom-tero- (“the other of two who meet, opposite”), from…
coadã
It is inherited from Latin cōda (“tail”), the rustic form of classical cauda (“tail”), with ō for au. De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *kaudā (“part, tail”) and Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-…
cu
It is inherited from Latin cum (“with”). Wiktionary traces the Latin preposition through Old Latin com to Proto-Italic *kom and Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with”); the Oxford Latin…
cum
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…
dau
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…
di
It is inherited from Latin dē (“from, down from, concerning”). In Latin it was a preposition with the ablative marking removal from a place, away from or down from. Wiktionary traces it to…
dit
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…
doi
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…
dupã
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin dē post (“after, behind”), from dē (“from”) and post (“behind, after”). Pascu and Candrea–Densusianu explain the form by the loss of the final consonant and the…
dzuã
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…
el
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *illus, the Vulgar Latin form of Latin ille (“that”), which Wiktionary gives as the probable route from Latin. Pascu derives the case forms from Latin case forms as…
fãrã
It is inherited from Latin forās (“out of doors, outside”), an adverb that Latin also used as a preposition. Candrea and Densusianu explain the change of o to ă as regular, since the word is…
featã
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…
ficior
It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *fētiolus, a diminutive of Latin fētus (“offspring”); Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu derive Romanian fecior from the same form, and its feminine fecioară…
frãndzã
It is inherited from Late Latin frondia (“foliage”), a collective noun made from the neuter plural of Latin frondeus (“leafy”), itself from frōns (“foliage, leaves”). Pușcariu sees in frondia a…
fur
1. The thief is inherited from Latin fūr (“thief”). The word is shared with archaic Romanian fur and Megleno-Romanian fur; the Latin word also survives in Italian furo and Old French fur. De Vaan…
ghini
It is inherited from Latin bene (“well”). The word is common to Eastern Romance: Romanian bine, Megleno-Romanian bini and Istro-Romanian bire. Its western cognates include Italian bene, French bien…
hiu
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…
intru
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-…
io
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…
lã
It is inherited from Latin illīs (“to them”), the dative plural of ille (“that; he”). Ciorănescu traces Romanian le, the Romanian dative plural, to the same Latin form. The unstressed dative plural…
limbã
It is inherited from Latin lingua (“tongue; language”), from Old Latin dingua. De Vaan traces it to Proto-Italic *dn̥χ(u)wā- and Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”); Wiktionary explains the…
ljau
It is inherited from Latin levō (“to lift, raise”). Pascu traces each form of the paradigm to its Latin source, the aorist to the Latin perfect and the participle to levātus. The verb is common to…
loc
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…
lucredz
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…
lucru
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…
ma
1. The adverb ma “more” is inherited from Latin magis (“more”), a derivative of magnus (“great”); de Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *magis (“greater”) and Proto-Indo-European *mǵ-i(V)s- (“greater”)…
mari
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…
meu
It is inherited from Latin meus (“my, mine”), from Proto-Italic *meos. Pascu takes the forms with a palatal nasal at the start (see Forms) as the regular outcome of the Latin word, and explains the…
moarã
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…
multu
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…