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rachetă
rocket /raˈke.tə/
noun#2990 most common
Also: missile, (tennis/badminton) racket
Example sentences
Racheta zboară foarte repede.
The rocket flies very fast.
Copilul a desenat o rachetă pe caiet.
The child drew a rocket in the notebook.
Racheta a fost lansată cu succes de pe platformă.
The rocket was successfully launched from the platform.
Inginerii verifică sistemul de combustibil al rachetei înainte de lansare.
The engineers check the rocket's fuel system before launch.
Agenția spațială a anunțat că noua rachetă va plasa sateliți pe orbită joasă.
The space agency announced that the new rocket will place satellites into low orbit.
Deși testele anterioare eșuaseră, rachetele reproiectate au atins în cele din urmă orbita dorită fără nicio abatere de traiectorie.
Although previous tests had failed, the redesigned rockets finally reached the desired orbit without any trajectory deviation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rachetă | rachete |
| Genitive | rachete | rachete |
| Accusative | rachetă | rachete |
| Vocative | racheto | rachete |
Word family
rachetărocket, missile
antirachetăanti-missile (as in "scut antirachetă", anti-missile shield)
rachetă-sondăsounding rocket, used for atmospheric research
rachetistrare term for a missile or rocketry specialist
Etymology
Rachetă entered Romanian from French roquette, which came from Italian rocchetta, a diminutive of rocca, meaning distaff. Early rocket casings were compared to a distaff because of their long, cylindrical, spool-like shape. The related French word raquette, from the same Italian family, gave Romanian rachetă its second, separate sense of a tennis or badminton racket. Russian raketa and German Rakete likely reinforced the rocket sense in Romanian during the twentieth century, especially in military and space contexts.
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