cumpănă
Romanian
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Church Slavonic кѫпона (kǫpona), from Latin campāna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumpănă f (plural cumpene)
- (literal, dated) balance, scales (instrument of measure with two plates in equilibrium)
- Synonym: balanță
- shadoof
- fântână cu cumpănă ― well with shadoof
- (now uncommon) danger, trial
- (obsolete) equilibrium
- Synonym: echilibru
- (obsolete) measure, judgement
- (obsolete) moderation
- (obsolete, rare) influence (social leverage)
- (sheepherding) quota of cheese given by the hired shepherd to the owner of the sheep
- (Moldavia (region)) great storm
- Synonym: rupere de nori
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | cumpănă | cumpăna | cumpene | cumpenele | |
| genitive-dative | cumpene | cumpenei | cumpene | cumpenelor | |
| vocative | cumpănă, cumpăno | cumpenelor | |||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Hungarian: kompona
References
[edit]- cumpănă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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- Romanian terms borrowed from Old Church Slavonic
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- Romanian terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Romanian/umpənə
- Rhymes:Romanian/umpənə/3 syllables
- Romanian lemmas
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- Romanian terms with collocations
- Romanian terms with uncommon senses
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- Moldavian Romanian
- ro:Measuring instruments