Learn Romanian › oricum
oricum
anyway /oriˈkum/
adverb#377 most common
Also: in any case, regardless, however
Example sentences
Oricum, mulțumesc!
Anyway, thanks!
Nu am chef, dar vin oricum.
I don't feel like it, but I'm coming anyway.
Oricum ai face-o, va fi greu.
However you do it, it will be hard.
Oricum ar fi, trebuie să terminăm proiectul până mâine.
Whatever the case, we have to finish the project by tomorrow.
Oricum, nu cred că mai contează acum ce s-a întâmplat atunci.
Anyway, I don't think what happened back then still matters now.
Oricum s-ar întoarce lucrurile, nu voi regreta decizia pe care am luat-o.
However things turn out, I won't regret the decision I made.
Word family
Etymology
Oricum is built from ori, the Romanian word for "or", plus cum, "how". Ori itself traces to Latin hora ("hour"), used in paired phrases like "one hour... another hour" that came to mark alternatives, which is how it settled into the meaning "or". Cum descends from Latin quomodo, "in what way". Together ori- attaches to question words to make indefinite forms, so oricum literally means "in whatever way", which shifted to today's sense of "anyway" or "regardless".
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