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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gloată	gloata		gloate	gloatele
genitive-dative	gloate	gloatei		gloate	gloatelor
vocative	gloată, gloato			gloatelor

Synonyms

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

See also

• grămadă