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centru
center /ˈtʃen.tru/
noun#812 most common
Also: downtown, core, hub
Example sentences
Mergem în centru.
We are going downtown.
Centrul orașului este frumos.
The city center is beautiful.
Ne întâlnim la centrul comercial mâine.
We are meeting at the mall tomorrow.
Prețurile din centrul istoric sunt mai mari decât în restul orașului.
Prices in the historic center are higher than in the rest of the city.
Guvernul a decis să mute centrul administrativ al județului într-o clădire nouă.
The government decided to move the county's administrative center to a new building.
Dezbaterea privind descentralizarea a readus în atenție rolul centrului de decizie față de autoritățile locale.
The debate over decentralization brought renewed attention to the role of the decision-making center relative to local authorities.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | centru | centre |
| Genitive | centrului | centrelor |
| Accusative | centru | centre |
| Vocative | centrule | centrelor |
Word family
Etymology
Centru entered Romanian from French centre, reinforced by the learned Latin form centrum. Latin centrum was itself a borrowing from Greek kentron, meaning the sharp point of a compass used to draw a circle. From that image of a fixed point around which everything else turns, the word grew into its modern sense of a middle point or hub.
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