cimpoi
Romanian edit
Alternative forms edit
- cimpoaie
- ciumpoi
- чимпой (cimpoi) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology edit
Probably from a Vulgar Latin root *centipollium, from Latin centipellium, centipellio (“third stomach of a ruminant”) < centum + pellium, as bagpipes were made from animal stomachs. Compare also Italian centopelle (“tripe”). Alternatively from the variant form cimpoaie, perhaps from an earlier *șimpoaie and this from Latin symphonia (compare Italian zampogna (“bagpipe”), Piedmontese ciamporgna; cf. also Portuguese sanfonha (“hurdy-gurdy”) and Romansch zampuogn (“type of bell”)) or Hungarian csimpolya, which seems more likely to have come from the Romanian word instead.
Noun edit
cimpoi n (plural cimpoaie)
Declension edit
Declension of cimpoi
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cimpoi | cimpoiul | (niște) cimpoaie | cimpoaiele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cimpoi | cimpoiului | (unor) cimpoaie | cimpoaielor |
| vocative | cimpoiule | cimpoaielor | ||