colindă

See also: colinda and colindá

Romanian

Alternative forms

• colind, corindă

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic колѧда (kolęda), from Proto-Slavic *kolęda, itself from Latin kalendae, calendae. The Latin word probably left a lost or unattested Romanian word *cărinde (compare related word cărindar), which influenced or became crossed with the Slavic-derived version to make the variant form corindă.

Noun

colindă f (plural colinde)

1. Christmas carol

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	colindă	colinda		colinde	colindele
genitive-dative	colinde	colindei		colinde	colindelor
vocative	colindă, colindo			colindelor

Derived terms

• colinda