pedeapsă
Romanian
Alternative forms
- pedepsă — obsolete
Etymology
Back-formation from pedepsi (“to punish”). First attested in 1581.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈde̯ap.sə/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -apsə
- Hyphenation: pe‧deap‧să
Noun
pedeapsă f (plural pedepse or (obsolete) pedepsi or pedeapse or (regional) pedepsuri)
- punishment
- (now uncommon) suffering
- (obsolete) education
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | pedeapsă | pedeapsa | pedepse | pedepsele | |
| genitive-dative | pedepse | pedepsei | pedepse | pedepselor | |
| vocative | pedeapsă, pedeapso | pedepselor | |||
Further reading
- “pedeapsă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1974), Dicționarul Limbii Române[1], volume 8, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 380–381