ciumă

See also: ciumã

Romanian

Etymology

Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages.

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Noun

ciumă f (plural ciume)

1. plague, pest, pestilence

   Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență

Declension

Declension of ciumă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ciumă	ciuma	(niște) ciume	ciumele
genitive/dative	(unei) ciume	ciumei	(unor) ciume	ciumelor
vocative	ciumă, ciumo		ciumelor

Descendants

• → Belarusian: чума (čuma)
• → Bulgarian: чума (čuma)
• → Macedonian: чума (čuma)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چوما (çuma)
• → Polish: dżuma
• → Russian: чума (čuma)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čuma
• → Tatar: чума (çuma)
• → Ukrainian: чума (čuma)

See also

• plagă