ciumă
Moldavian
noun
Definitions
- plague, pest, pestilence
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cyma derived from Ancient Greek κῦμα (wave, billow, swell, something swollen, fetus, sprout of a plant, embryo, cyma, anything swollen, such as a wave billow).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κῦμα
Gloss
wave, billow, swell, something swollen, fetus, sprout of a plant, embryo, cyma, anything swollen, such as a wave billow
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
波
Emoji
👋 🌊 🏄️ 👋
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cymotrichous English
- cyma Latin
- cȳma Latin
- cima Spanish, Castilian
- cimar Spanish, Castilian
- κυμαίνω Ancient Greek
- κῠ́ω Ancient Greek
- κῦμα Ancient Greek
- τριχ- Ancient Greek
- dżuma Polish
- cim Catalan, Valencian
- κύμα Greek (modern)
- ciumã Aromanian
- cima Old Spanish
- čama Dalmatian
- seîma Istriot
- *kūmə Proto-Hellenic