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"Not in current use" indicates words not found in dictionaries of contemporary Romanian. The Sources column indicates the linguist(s) or the works who suggested including the words in the list: "Sala": Marius Sala, De la latină la română (1998) "Hasdeu": Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae, 1894. [better source needed]
formed by mal-prefix dis-for verbs and words derived from verbs, in-for adjectives and words derived from adjectives in addition, certain roots can be prefixed, e.g. mal: Infinitive suffix -i (invariable) -ar, -er, or -ir: Imperative -u suffix same as indicative Plural noun -oj (agglutinative) -s (after vowels)-es (after consonants) Adjectives
The original word base of Esperanto contained around 900 root words and was defined in Unua Libro ("First Book"), published by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. In 1894, Zamenhof published the first Esperanto dictionary, Universala vortaro ("International Dictionary"), which was written in five languages and supplied a larger set of root words, adding 1740 new words.
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples lab-, lep-[1]grasp, seize, take: Greek: λαμβάνειν (lambánein), λῆψις (lêpsis), λῆμμα (lêmma)
Llorente Maldonado de Guevara, Antonio "Las Palabras pirenaicas de origen prerromano, de J. Hubschmid, y su importancia para la lingüística peninsular", Archivo de Filología Aragonesa, 8–9, pp. 127–157, 1958. Monlau y Roca, Pedro Felipe. "Diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana Madrid, 1856. Oroz Arizcuren, Franciso Javier.
This is a list of Spanish words of uncertain origin. Some of these words existed in Latin and/or Ancient Greek , but are thought by some scholars to ultimately come from some other source. Many of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language .