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pisică
cat /piˈsikə/
noun#1099 most common
Also: female cat, kitty
Example sentences
Pisica doarme pe canapea.
The cat is sleeping on the couch.
Am o pisică neagră.
I have a black cat.
Pisica mea vânează șoareci în curte.
My cat hunts mice in the yard.
Dacă hrănești pisica în fiecare zi, ea devine afectuoasă.
If you feed the cat every day, it becomes affectionate.
Deși pare independentă, pisica își recunoaște stăpânul după voce.
Although it seems independent, the cat recognizes its owner by voice.
Comportamentul pisicii, adesea interpretat drept indiferență, ascunde de fapt o formă subtilă de atașament față de om.
The cat's behavior, often read as indifference, actually hides a subtle form of attachment to humans.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pisică | pisici |
| Genitive | pisicii | pisicilor |
| Accusative | pisică | pisici |
| Vocative | pisico | pisicilor |
Word family
pisicuțăkitten, little cat (affectionate diminutive)
pisoitomcat, young male cat
pisicescfeline, cat-like
pisiceștein a cat-like, stealthy way
Etymology
Romanian dictionaries treat pisică as an expressive, onomatopoeic formation rather than a word inherited from Latin. It is built on the syllable pis, the sound used across the Balkans to call a cat, much as English speakers say puss or pss pss. The same call-word turns up with a similar shape in neighboring Balkan languages, which points to shared regional expressive vocabulary rather than a common inherited root.
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