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piele
skin /ˈpje.le/
noun#913 most common
Also: leather, hide, pelt
Example sentences
Pielea mea este albă.
My skin is white.
Am o geantă din piele.
I have a leather bag.
Pantofii aceștia sunt din piele naturală.
These shoes are made of genuine leather.
După ce am stat prea mult la soare, mi s-a ars pielea.
After staying too long in the sun, my skin got burned.
Tăbăcarul lucrează pieile în atelierul din spatele casei.
The tanner works the hides in the workshop behind the house.
Mi-a făcut pielea de găină povestea aceea înfiorătoare.
That terrifying story gave me goosebumps.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | piele | piei |
| Genitive | pielii | pieilor |
| Accusative | piele | piei |
| Vocative | piele | piei |
Word family
pielițămembrane, thin skin
pielartanner, leather worker
pielărieleather goods shop or tannery
pielosleathery, tough-skinned
Etymology
The word comes from Latin "pellis", meaning skin or hide. It passed into Romanian through normal sound change, with the Latin ending shifting to the Romanian feminine -e. The same Latin root spread across the Romance languages and even into Germanic ones through borrowing.
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