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prag
threshold /ˈpraɡ/
noun#4809 most common
Also: doorstep, sill, limit (figurative, e.g. poverty threshold)
Example sentences
Ușa are un prag înalt.
The door has a high threshold.
Am căzut pe pragul casei.
I fell on the doorstep of the house.
Stătea în prag și aștepta.
He stood in the doorway and waited.
Copiii nu au voie să sară peste prag.
The children are not allowed to jump over the threshold.
Guvernul a stabilit un prag de sărăcie mai ridicat.
The government set a higher poverty threshold.
Fenomenul devine vizibil abia după ce stimulul depășește pragul de percepție senzorială.
The phenomenon becomes visible only once the stimulus exceeds the sensory perception threshold.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prag | praguri |
| Genitive | pragului | pragurilor |
| Accusative | prag | praguri |
| Vocative | pragule | pragurilor |
Word family
pragthreshold, doorstep
subpragbelow the perception threshold (subliminal)
suprapragabove the perception threshold (supraliminal)
prag de rentabilitatebreak-even point
prag de sărăciepoverty line
Etymology
Prag came into Romanian from a South Slavic source, most likely Old Church Slavonic or Bulgarian prag, meaning threshold or doorsill. Romanian absorbed a large layer of Slavic vocabulary in the early medieval period through sustained contact with Slavic-speaking populations in the Balkans. The word kept its concrete sense, the raised strip under a door, and later gained an abstract sense of a limit or boundary in technical and economic usage.
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