ciumă
See also: ciumã
Romanian
Etymology
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
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Noun
ciumă f (plural ciume)
- plague, pest, pestilence
- Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență
- (dated) hilltop, hill peak[1]
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | ciumă | ciuma | ciume | ciumele | |
| genitive-dative | ciume | ciumei | ciume | ciumelor | |
| vocative | ciumă, ciumo | ciumelor | |||
Descendants
- → 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)
See also
References
- ^ Dumitru Loșonți, Toponime româneşti care descriu forme de relief, 2000, pp. 46-47