șopârlă
Romanian
Etymology
Older șopîrlă, influenced by șopîrcăi (“to joke, be goofy”) and năpârcă (“adder”), possibly from or cognate to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Albanian (Tosk) shapinj (“lizards”) (standard zhapinj), plural of shapi (standard zhapi) as a substratum word. Other less likely theories include a derivation of Ancient Greek σήψ (sḗps) or a Latin *sepinula.
Pronunciation
Noun
șopârlă f (plural șopârle)
Declension
Declension of șopârlă
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) șopârlă | șopârla | (niște) șopârle | șopârlele |
genitive/dative | (unei) șopârle | șopârlei | (unor) șopârle | șopârlelor |
vocative | șopârlă, șopârlo | șopârlelor |
See also
Categories:
- Romanian terms derived from Albanian
- Romanian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Romanian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
- Romanian terms derived from substrate languages
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