copil
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Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- копил (copil) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Formerly ‘bastard’, probably from Proto-Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”) (compare Ukrainian копил (kopyl) or копиля (kopylja), Serbo-Croatian копиле (kȍpile), Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele)), from *kopàti (“to dig, cultivate”). Also borrowed into Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). Alternatively an old ultimately paleo-Balkan substrate word. Compare Aromanian cochil, Megleno-Romanian copil (“bastard”), cupilaș (“child”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /koˈpil/
Audio (male voice): (file) Audio (female voice): (file) - Rhymes: -il
- Hyphenation: co‧pil
Noun
[edit]copil m (plural copii, feminine equivalent copilă)
- child
- Am doi copii.
- I have two children.
Declension
[edit]Declension of copil
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- copil in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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