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lume
world /ˈlu.me/
noun#120 most common
Also: people, everyone (in the phrase "toată lumea")
Example sentences
Lumea este frumoasă.
The world is beautiful.
Multă lume merge la mare vara.
Many people go to the seaside in summer.
Toată lumea știe povestea asta.
Everyone knows this story.
A călătorit prin toată lumea înainte să se stabilească aici.
He traveled around the whole world before settling here.
Ea a decis să se retragă din lume după moartea soțului ei.
She decided to withdraw from the world after her husband's death.
Istoria lumii este marcată de cicluri repetate de ascensiune și declin ale civilizațiilor.
The history of the world is marked by repeated cycles of rise and fall of civilizations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lume | lumi |
| Genitive | lumii | lumilor |
| Accusative | lume | lumi |
| Vocative | lume | lumi |
Word family
lumescworldly, mundane
lumeștein a worldly, secular manner
luminălightluminato illuminate, light up
lumânarecandleEtymology
Lume comes from Latin lumen, luminis, meaning light. In popular Latin and early Romanian the sense drifted from light to the lit realm one lives in, and finally to world. The same logic survives in the Romanian phrase a vedea lumina zilei, to see the light of day, meaning to be born.
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