femeie
Pronunciation: [fe.ˈme.je]
“femeie” is a Romanian word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
Etymology
Inherited from Latin familia (“family”). Compare Aromanian fumealji (“family; children”), Albanian fëmijë (“child”). The old sense of "family" in Romanian is now lost, replaced by the neologism familie. Despite the phonetic and semantic similarities, is unrelated to Latin femella, and it is improbable that this word influenced the development of the meaning in modern Romanian because the older…
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