Noun: paparudă
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | paparudă |
| Sg. Def. | paparuda |
| Pl. Indef. | paparude |
| Pl. Def. | paparudele |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | paparude |
| Sg. Def. | paparudei |
| Pl. Indef. | paparude |
| Pl. Def. | paparudelor |
Vocative
| Singular | paparudă; paparudo |
| Plural | paparudelor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like paparudă
sfârlă,
botelniță,
palestră,
sfeclă,
endopericardită,
sforță,
mesapică,
mesalină,
mucarniță,
săpoaică,
mânzoaică,
turbosuflantă,
paraglobină,
ustensilă,
serată,
serină,
sepală,
sezină,
seanță,
sedilă, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Bulgarian пеперуда (peperuda), of disputed etymology.
2. There are at least three possible etymologies:
3. # from Proto-Slavic *Perunъ (“god of thunder”);
4. # from Paleo-Balkan, akin to Albanian perperonë, Greek περπερούνα (perperoúna), πεπερούδα (peperoúda), Bulgarian пеперуда (peperuda, “butterfly”);
5. # from an expressive formation that indicates a kind of small insect (e.g. butterflies, ladybugs, etc.), reflected also in Latin pāpiliō, Italian papiglione, parpaglione, Occitan parpalhon, parpalhòl. See: Bulgarian Nouns '
пеперуда', Bulgarian Nouns '
пеперуда', Latin Nouns '
pāpiliō', Italian Nouns '
papiglione'.
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