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castel
castle /kasˈtel/
noun#1904 most common
Also: chateau, palace (large, ornate residence)
Example sentences
Acesta este un castel.
This is a castle.
Castelul este foarte mare.
The castle is very big.
Am vizitat un castel medieval în vacanță.
I visited a medieval castle on vacation.
Castelul Bran este cunoscut drept castelul lui Dracula.
Bran Castle is known as Dracula's castle.
Turiștii se plimbă printre zidurile vechi ale castelelor din Transilvania.
Tourists walk among the old walls of the castles in Transylvania.
Deși castelul fusese renovat de mai multe ori, arhitectura originală din secolul al XV-lea rămăsese aproape neatinsă.
Although the castle had been renovated several times, the original 15th-century architecture had remained almost untouched.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | castelul | castelele |
| Genitive | castelului | castelelor |
| Accusative | castelul | castelele |
| Vocative | castelule | castelelor |
Word family
castelancastellan, lord or keeper of a castle
castelanăchatelaine, lady of a castle
castel de nisipsandcastle
castel de apăwater tower (literally 'water castle')
Etymology
Castel entered Romanian in the modern era as a borrowing from French château (with the form shaped by Italian castello), part of the wave of Western Romance vocabulary that reshaped Romanian during the 19th century. Both source words go back to Latin castellum, a diminutive of castrum, meaning a fortified camp or fort. Romanian already had a separate, older word for a fortified stronghold, cetate, so castel took on the narrower sense of a grand residential castle or chateau.
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