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lumânare
candle /lu.mɨˈna.re/
noun#3147 most common
Also: taper
Example sentences
Aprind o lumânare.
I light a candle.
Pe masă este o lumânare albă.
There is a white candle on the table.
A stins lumânarea înainte de a pleca.
She blew out the candle before leaving.
Copiii au aprins lumânările de pe tort.
The children lit the candles on the cake.
Mirosul de ceară topită al lumânării umplea camera.
The smell of melted wax from the candle filled the room.
La lumina pâlpâitoare a unei singure lumânări, își scria jurnalul în fiecare seară.
By the flickering light of a single candle, she wrote in her journal every evening.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lumânare | lumânări |
| Genitive | lumânări | lumânări |
| Accusative | lumânare | lumânări |
| Vocative | lumânare | lumânări |
Word family
luminălight
luminato light, to illuminate
luminosluminous, brightlumânărarcandle maker, chandler
luminătorluminary, light source
Etymology
Lumânare comes from Latin luminaria, the neuter plural of luminare, meaning a lamp or light. Romanian, like other Romance languages, often reinterpreted Latin neuter plurals in -a as feminine singular nouns, and that is what happened here: luminaria became the feminine singular lumânare. The root is the same one behind Latin lumen, light.
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