ciumă
See also: ciumã
Romanian
editEtymology
editProbably 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
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Noun
editciumă f (plural ciume)
- plague, pest, pestilence
- Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență
Declension
editDeclension 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)