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insignă

badge /inˈsiɡnə/

noun#3411 most common

Also: pin, insignia, emblem

Example sentences

Am o insignă nouă.
I have a new badge.
Insigna mea este albastră.
My badge is blue.
El poartă o insignă cu numele echipei pe piept.
He wears a badge with the team's name on his chest.
Colecționez insigne de la fiecare oraș pe care îl vizitez.
I collect badges from every city I visit.
Insigna de merit i-a fost acordată pentru contribuția sa deosebită la proiect.
The merit badge was awarded to him for his outstanding contribution to the project.
Muzeul expune o colecție rară de insigne militare din perioada interbelică, fiecare purtând un simbol distinct al regimentului căruia îi aparținuse.
The museum displays a rare collection of military badges from the interwar period, each bearing a distinct symbol of the regiment it had belonged to.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeinsignăinsigne
Genitiveinsigneinsigne
Accusativeinsignăinsigne
Vocativeinsignăinsigne

Word family

semnsign, mark
a semnato sign
semnalsignalsemnăturăsignature
a desemnato designate

Etymology

Insignă entered Romanian from French insigne, itself from Latin insignis, meaning marked or distinguished. That Latin word breaks down into in- (on, into) and signum (a mark or sign). Romanian already had a native descendant of signum in the word semn, so insignă arrived later as a learned borrowing alongside it.

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