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plăcintă
pie (a Romanian filled pastry, e.g. with cheese, apple, or pumpkin) /pləˈt͡ʃintə/
noun#3017 most common
Also: turnover, flatcake
Example sentences
Eu mănânc o plăcintă.
I am eating a pie.
Mama face o plăcintă cu brânză.
Mom is making a cheese pie.
Am cumpărat o plăcintă cu mere de la piață.
I bought an apple pie from the market.
Plăcinta era încă caldă când am scos-o din cuptor.
The pie was still warm when I took it out of the oven.
Miroase a plăcintă proaspătă în toată casa.
The whole house smells of fresh pie.
Rețeta bunicii pentru plăcintă cu dovleac se transmite din generație în generație, fiecare adăugând mica ei variație.
Grandma's recipe for pumpkin pie has been passed down from generation to generation, each person adding a small variation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | plăcintă | plăcinte |
| Genitive | plăcintei | plăcintelor |
| Accusative | plăcintă | plăcinte |
| Vocative | plăcinto | plăcintelor |
Word family
plăcintara person who makes or sells pies
plăcintăreasăa woman who makes or sells pies
plăcintăriea shop specializing in pies
plăcințicăa small pie (diminutive)
Etymology
Plăcintă descends from Latin placenta, meaning a flat cake, which Latin itself borrowed from Greek plakous (genitive plakountos), also a flat cake. The Greek word traces to a root meaning flat or broad. Romanian kept the word as everyday vocabulary for a pastry, while other languages sent the same Latin word down a very different path.
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