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actor
actor /akˈtor/
noun#1892 most common
Also: performer, player
Example sentences
El este actor.
He is an actor.
Actorul acesta joacă foarte bine.
This actor acts very well.
Actorii au repetat piesa toată ziua.
The actors rehearsed the play all day.
Cariera actorului a început la teatru, nu la film.
The actor's career began in theater, not film.
Regizorul i-a mulțumit actorului pentru interpretarea sa impresionantă.
The director thanked the actor for his impressive performance.
Fără talentul actorilor implicați, scenariul acela mediocru n-ar fi devenit niciodată un succes de box office.
Without the talent of the actors involved, that mediocre script would never have become a box-office success.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | actorul | actorii |
| Genitive | actorului | actorilor |
| Accusative | actorul | actorii |
| Vocative | actorule | actorilor |
Word family
actrițăactress
actoriethe acting profession, acting craft
actoricescrelating to actors or acting
a jucato act, to play a role
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "actor" from French "acteur" and Latin "actor" during the 19th-century modernization of its vocabulary, when many Romance-based terms replaced older Slavic or Turkish loans. The Latin root is "actor", meaning "doer" or "agent", built from the verb "agere", "to do" or "to drive". The word entered Romanian alongside a wave of French cultural vocabulary tied to theater and the arts.
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