vântă

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Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly from Latin vānitās (compare the neological borrowing vanitate), or alternatively derived from a now lost early Romanian verb *vânta, itself from the Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre (whence Italian vantare, French vanter), from Latin vānitās, from vānus.[1]

Noun

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vântă f (plural vinte)

  1. (archaic, regional) fame, aggrandizement, glory
    Synonyms: faimă, mărire, glorie

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