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plastic

plastic (the material) /plasˈtik/

noun#3589 most common

Also: plastic, expressive (adjective, of language or art), visual/fine arts (in "artele plastice")

Example sentences

Am o sticlă de plastic.
I have a plastic bottle.
Punga este din plastic.
The bag is made of plastic.
Reciclăm mult plastic în fiecare săptămână.
We recycle a lot of plastic every week.
Plasticul poluează oceanele planetei.
Plastic pollutes the planet's oceans.
Guvernul a interzis pungile de plastic de unică folosință.
The government banned single-use plastic bags.
Reducerea deșeurilor de plastic rămâne o provocare majoră pentru industria ambalajelor.
Reducing plastic waste remains a major challenge for the packaging industry.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeplasticplasticuri
Genitiveplasticuluiplasticurilor
Accusativeplasticplasticuri
Vocativeplasticplasticuri

Word family

plasticitateplasticity
a plastificato plasticize, coat with plastic
plasticianvisual artist
artele plasticethe visual/fine arts
plasticvivid, expressive (of style or language)

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "plastic" from French "plastique", which traces back to Greek "plastikos", meaning fit for molding. That adjective comes from "plassein", to mold or shape. The word entered Romanian first as a technical and artistic term, and later took on its everyday sense of the synthetic material once that substance became common in the 20th century.

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