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elegant
elegant /e.leˈɡant/
adjective#3187 most common
Also: stylish, graceful, refined
Example sentences
Rochia ei este elegantă.
Her dress is elegant.
El poartă un costum elegant la birou.
He wears an elegant suit at the office.
Au mers la un restaurant elegant de ziua lor de naștere.
They went to an elegant restaurant for their birthday.
Ea a intrat în cameră îmbrăcată elegant, atrăgând toate privirile.
She entered the room elegantly dressed, drawing every eye.
Soluția matematică propusă de el a fost extrem de elegantă.
The mathematical solution he proposed was extremely elegant.
Deși criticii îi numeau stilul pretențios, colegii îl considerau pur și simplu elegant, o eleganță discretă ce nu avea nevoie de artificii.
Though critics called his style pretentious, his colleagues considered it simply elegant, an understated elegance that needed no artifice.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | elegant / elegantă | eleganți / elegante |
| Genitive | elegant / elegantă | eleganți / elegante |
| Accusative | elegant / elegantă | eleganți / elegante |
| Vocative | elegant / elegantă | eleganți / elegante |
Word family
eleganțăelegance
inelegantinelegant, ungraceful
elegantelegantly (same form used adverbially)eleganțeelegances, refined touches (rare plural)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "elegant" from French "élégant" in the modern era, as part of a wave of French vocabulary that entered Romanian in the 19th century. The French word traces to Latin "elegans", the present participle of "eligere", meaning to pick out or choose. That Latin verb combines the prefix "ex-" (out) with "legere" (to gather, choose, read). The core sense of elegance, then, is a quality of having been carefully selected.
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