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lenjerie
linens /lenʒeˈri.e/
noun#3277 most common
Also: underwear/lingerie, bed linen
Example sentences
Cumpăr lenjerie nouă.
I am buying new linens.
Lenjeria de pat este curată.
The bed linen is clean.
Am spălat toată lenjeria ieri.
I washed all the linens yesterday.
Magazinul vinde lenjerie intimă de calitate.
The store sells quality lingerie.
Lenjeria de corp din bumbac este mai confortabilă decât cea sintetică.
Cotton underwear is more comfortable than synthetic underwear.
Fabricantul a lansat o colecție de lenjerie fină, inspirată din moda anilor '50.
The manufacturer launched a fine lingerie collection, inspired by 1950s fashion.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lenjerie | lenjerii |
| Genitive | lenjeriei | lenjeriilor |
| Accusative | lenjerie | lenjerii |
| Vocative | lenjerie | lenjeriilor |
Word family
lenjerie de patbed linen, bedsheets
lenjerie intimăunderwear, lingerie
lenjerie de corpbody linen, undergarments
lenjerdated term for a dealer in linen goods
Etymology
Lenjerie entered Romanian from French lingerie in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French loanwords that reshaped Romanian vocabulary for fashion and domestic life. French lingerie itself comes from linge, meaning linen cloth, tied to the Latin word for flax, linum. The word linen and its relatives across Europe likely trace back to an old Mediterranean term for the flax plant rather than a native Indo-European root, so no secure PIE reconstruction exists.
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