pedeapsă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• pedepsă — obsolete

Etymology

Back-formation from pedepsi (“to punish”). First attested in 1581.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈde̯ap.sə/

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• Rhymes: -apsə
• Hyphenation: pe‧deap‧să

Noun

pedeapsă f (plural pedepse or (obsolete) pedepsi or pedeapse or (regional) pedepsuri)

1. punishment
2. (now uncommon) suffering
3. (obsolete) education

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pedeapsă	pedeapsa	pedepse	pedepsele
genitive-dative	pedepse	pedepsei	pedepse	pedepselor
vocative	pedeapsă, pedeapso		pedepselor

Further reading

• “pedeapsă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1974), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 8, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 380–381