Romanian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ples.neˈvi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: ples‧ne‧vi

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian plèsniviti.

Verb

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a plesnevi (third-person singular present plesnevește, past participle plesnevit, third-person subjunctive plesnevească) 4th conjugation

  1. (intransitive, Banat) to mould (go mouldy)[1]
    Synonym: mucegăi

Etymology 2

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Verb

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a plesnevi (third-person singular present plesnevește, past participle plesnevit, third-person subjunctive plesnevească) 4th conjugation

  1. obsolete form of plesni (precise meaning not indicated)
    • [c. 1650, Anonymus Caransebesiensis (overall work in Latin), page 111, line 3365; edited in Gheorghe Chivu, editor, Dictionarium valachico-latinum: Primul dicționar al limbii române, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, 2008, →ISBN, page 110:
      Plesneve̓sk. —]
Conjugation
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References

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  1. ^ Lucreția Mareș, editor (1967), list of words from Bocșa, Reșița Raion, Banat region gathered by Octavian Răuț and Ioan Bettisch, in Lexic regional (in Romanian), volume 2, Bucharest: Editura Tehnică, page 37:Plesneví, pers 3 sg. plesnevește, vb. IV intranz. = a mucegăi.

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