copil

• копил (copil) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Formerly ‘bastard’, compare with Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). Alternatively an old ultimately paleo-Balkan substrate word. Compare Aromanian cochil, Megleno-Romanian copil (“bastard”), cupilaș (“child”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈpil/

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• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: co‧pil

copil m (plural copii, feminine equivalent copilă)

1. child

   Am doi copii.

   I have two children.

• copilărie
• copilaș

• “copil”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025