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peșteră
cave /peʃˈterə/
noun#3512 most common
Also: cavern, grotto
Example sentences
Peștera este mare.
The cave is big.
Copiii au vizitat o peșteră.
The children visited a cave.
În peșteră locuiesc lilieci.
Bats live in the cave.
Peștera a fost descoperită acum un secol de niște exploratori.
The cave was discovered a century ago by some explorers.
Peșterile din Munții Apuseni atrag mii de turiști în fiecare an.
The caves in the Apuseni Mountains attract thousands of tourists every year.
Formațiunile calcaroase din peșteră s-au format de-a lungul a zeci de mii de ani, printr-un proces geologic lent.
The limestone formations in the cave took shape over tens of thousands of years, through a slow geological process.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | peșteră / peștera | peșteri / peșterile |
| Genitive | peșteri / peșterii | peșteri / peșterilor |
| Accusative | peșteră / peștera | peșteri / peșterile |
| Vocative | peșteră | peșterilor |
Word family
peșterăcave
peștericaves (plural)
grotăgrotto (near-synonym, different origin)
speologiespeleology, the study of caves
speologspeleologist, a person who studies or explores caves
Etymology
Romanian borrowed peșteră from a South Slavic source, close to Bulgarian пещера (peshtera), meaning cave. That Slavic word itself traces back to pešt, an old term for oven or furnace, so a cave was originally pictured as a natural oven, a hollow, heated-looking space in the rock. The word entered Romanian during centuries of close contact with Slavic-speaking neighbors in the Balkans.
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