gorilă

See also: gorila and Gorilă

Romanian

Gorilă

Etymology

Borrowed from French gorille, from New Latin gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoˈri.lə/

Noun

gorilă f (plural gorile)

1. gorilla (ape)

Declension

Declension of gorilă

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gorilă	gorila		gorile	gorilele
genitive-dative	gorile	gorilei		gorile	gorilelor
vocative	gorilă, gorilo			gorilelor

Further reading

• gorilă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)