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.

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Noun

ciumă f (plural ciume)

  1. plague, pest, pestilence
    Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență

Declension
Declension of ciumă
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) ciumă ciuma (niște) ciume ciumele
genitive/dative (unei) ciume ciumei (unor) 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)

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