ciumă
See also: ciumã
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
ciumă f (plural ciume)
- plague, pest, pestilence
- Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență
Declension edit
Declension of ciumă
Descendants edit
- → Belarusian: чума (čuma)
- → Bulgarian: чума (čuma)
- → Macedonian: чума (čuma)
- → Ottoman Turkish: چوما (çuma)
- → Polish: dżuma
- → Russian: чума (čuma)
- → Serbo-Croatian: čuma
- → Tatar: чума (çuma)
- → Ukrainian: чума (čuma)