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prunc

Pronunciation: /ˈprunk/

“prunc” is a Romanian word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. infant; newborn; baby

In Romanian

  1. (cur.) copil în primele luni de viață.
  2. (înv. și reg.) copil în raport cu părinții săi.
  3. (înv. și pop.) copil (indiferent de vârstă sau sex).
  4. bebe, bebeluș, nou-născut, sugaci, sugar
  5. fiu, fiică

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pueruncus, from Latin puer (“child”) + diminutive suffix -unculus. In Balkan Latin, a popular, syncopated variant of the suffix -unculus was *-unclus, hence words like unchi, rărunchi, genunchi, etc. This *puerunclus was hypercorrected by analogy with Latin iuvencus ("calf, bullock"; inherited as junc), resulting in an unusual *pueruncus. While the hypercorrection…

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