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companie

company (business enterprise) /komp.aˈni.e/

noun#517 most common

Also: companionship, companion, in the phrase 'a ține companie', group of people accompanying someone

Example sentences

Am o companie mică.
I have a small company.
Îmi place să îi țin companie bunicii mele.
I like to keep my grandmother company.
Compania la care lucrez are peste o sută de angajați.
The company where I work has over a hundred employees.
Această companie de asigurări oferă polițe pentru locuințe și mașini.
This insurance company offers policies for homes and cars.
Fuziunea dintre cele două companii a schimbat radical piața telecomunicațiilor.
The merger between the two companies radically changed the telecommunications market.
Consiliul de administrație al companiei a decis să restructureze departamentele, în ciuda opoziției acționarilor minoritari.
The company's board of directors decided to restructure the departments, despite the opposition of minority shareholders.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativecompaniecompanii
Genitivecompanieicompaniilor
Accusativecompaniecompanii
Vocativecompaniecompanii

Word family

companiecompany
a acompaniato accompany
acompaniamentaccompaniment (musical)
companion / companioanăcompanion (literary, rare)

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "companie" from French "compagnie" in the modern era, as part of a wave of French vocabulary that reshaped Romanian in the 19th century. The French word descends from Late Latin "companio," built from "cum" (with) and "panis" (bread). The core image is of people who share a meal, and from there the word widened to mean any group bound together, whether socially or commercially.

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