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otravă
poison /oˈtravə/
noun#2625 most common
Also: venom, toxin
Example sentences
Aceasta este otravă.
This is poison.
Nu bea apa, are otravă în ea.
Don't drink the water, it has poison in it.
Șarpele acesta produce o otravă foarte periculoasă.
This snake produces a very dangerous poison.
A pus otravă de șoareci în pivniță.
He put mouse poison in the cellar.
Cuvintele ei au fost ca o otravă lentă pentru relația lor.
Her words were like a slow poison for their relationship.
Detectivul a găsit urme de otravă în sângele victimei, ceea ce a confirmat teoria crimei.
The detective found traces of poison in the victim's blood, which confirmed the murder theory.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | otravă | otrăvuri |
| Genitive | otrăvi | otrăvurilor |
| Accusative | otravă | otrăvuri |
| Vocative | otravo | otrăvurilor |
Word family
Etymology
Otravă comes from Old Church Slavonic, tied to the verb meaning to poison. Romanian absorbed a large layer of Slavic vocabulary in the early medieval period through contact with neighboring Slavic populations and the church. The word kept its core meaning of a substance that kills or harms when ingested, and it later gained figurative use for anything that corrodes a relationship or a mind.
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