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apus
sunset /aˈpus/
noun#3983 most common
Also: the west (as a direction/region), decline, end (figurative)
Example sentences
Mergem spre apus.
We are going toward the west.
Apusul de soare este frumos.
The sunset is beautiful.
Ne-am oprit pe plajă să privim apusul.
We stopped on the beach to watch the sunset.
Culorile apusului se reflectau în apa lacului.
The colors of the sunset were reflected in the lake's water.
Acea civilizație a rămas doar o amintire, un apus de glorie.
That civilization remained only a memory, a sunset of glory.
Imperiul, cândva atotputernic, trăia acum apusul inevitabil al puterii sale.
The empire, once all-powerful, was now living through the inevitable decline of its power.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | apus / apusul | apusuri / apusurile |
| Genitive | apusului | apusurilor |
| Accusative | apus / apusul | apusuri / apusurile |
| Vocative | apusule | apusurilor |
Word family
a apuneto set (of the sun, moon, or stars); to decline
apuseanwestern, occidental
Apusulthe West (Western civilization, as opposed to Răsărit, the East)
asfințitsunset, dusk (near-synonym)
Etymology
Apus is the past participle of the verb a apune, meaning to set, as the sun or a star does. Romanian dictionaries trace a apune to the Latin verb apponere, formed from the prefix ad- and ponere, to put or place. Over time the sense narrowed from a general placing or setting down to the specific image of the sun sinking below the horizon, and from there it extended to mean the west and, figuratively, decline or an ending.
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