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orice
any /ˈo.ri.t͡ʃe/
other#181 most common
Also: anything, whatever, whichever
Example sentences
Alege orice culoare îți place.
Choose any color you like.
Poți mânca orice fel de mâncare aici.
You can eat any kind of food here.
Sunt gata să fac orice pentru familia mea.
I am ready to do anything for my family.
Orice ai spune, hotărârea mea rămâne aceeași.
Whatever you say, my decision stays the same.
Orice ar fi, nu trebuie să renunțăm la speranță.
Whatever happens, we must not give up hope.
Orice interpretare am da acestui text, sensul profund rămâne discutabil.
Whatever interpretation we give this text, its deeper meaning remains debatable.
Word family
Etymology
Orice is a compound of ori and ce. Ori, the Romanian word for "or," traces back to Latin hora ("hour, time"), the same source behind French or and the Italian/Spanish ora... ora pattern, where repeating a time word in alternation gradually came to mean "either... or." Ce, meaning "what," comes from Latin quid. Fused together, ori plus ce literally means "or-what," which settled into the sense of "any, whatever."
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