vântă

Romanian

Alternative forms
  • vintă

Etymology

Possibly from Latin vānitās (compare the neological borrowing vanitate), or alternatively derived from a now lost early Romanian verb *vânta, itself from the Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre (whence Italian vantare, French vanter), from Latin vānitās, from vānus[1].

Noun

vântă f (plural vinte)

  1. (archaic, regional) fame, aggrandizement, glory

Synonyms

References
  1. http://dex.anidescoala.ro/cuvant/vinta
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