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asistentă
nurse /asisˈtentə/
noun#1753 most common
Also: (female) assistant, teaching assistant, aide
Example sentences
Asistenta îmi ia tensiunea.
The nurse takes my blood pressure.
Asistenta medicală lucrează la spital.
The nurse works at the hospital.
Am sunat-o pe asistenta doctorului pentru o programare.
I called the doctor's assistant to make an appointment.
Asistenta socială a vizitat familia săptămâna trecută.
The social worker visited the family last week.
Fără asistenta ei devotată, profesoara nu ar fi terminat cercetarea la timp.
Without her devoted assistant, the professor would not have finished the research on time.
Asistenta universitară a fost promovată lector după ce și-a susținut teza de doctorat.
The university teaching assistant was promoted to lecturer after she defended her doctoral thesis.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | asistentă | asistente |
| Genitive | asistente | asistentelor |
| Accusative | asistentă | asistente |
| Vocative | asistento | asistentelor |
Word family
asistentmale assistant or male nurse
asistato assist, to attend
asistențăassistance, help, aid
asistatassisted
Etymology
Asistentă is the feminine form of asistent, borrowed by Romanian from French assistant/assistante in the 19th century, itself from Latin assistens, the present participle of assistere, meaning to stand by or to be present. Assistere is built from ad- (toward) and sistere (to place, to stand), a causative form tied to the verb stare, to stand. The word entered Romanian as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized professional vocabulary.
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