gloată

See also: gloata

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic глота (glota), from Proto-Slavic *glota. Compare Serbo-Croatian glota, Polish gołota (“the poor”). Doublet of holotă.

Noun

gloată f (plural gloate)

1. a crowd, mass, mob, herd, multitude (sometimes with a pejorative sense, as in rabble, commoners, simple people)
2. armed band, troop

Declension

Declension of gloată

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) gloată	gloata	(niște) gloate	gloatele
genitive/dative	(unei) gloate	gloatei	(unor) gloate	gloatelor
vocative	gloată, gloato		gloatelor

Synonyms

• (crowd, multitude, mob): mulțime, adunătură, plebe
• (armed band, troop): ceată

See also

• grămadă