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societate
society /so.t͡ʃi.eˈta.te/
noun#1735 most common
Also: company, firm, association
Example sentences
Trăim într-o societate mare.
We live in a large society.
Tatăl meu a deschis o societate comercială.
My father opened a business company.
Societatea românească se schimbă rapid.
Romanian society is changing quickly.
Rolul femeilor în societate a evoluat mult în ultimul secol.
The role of women in society has evolved a lot in the last century.
Inegalitatea socială afectează coeziunea societății.
Social inequality affects the cohesion of society.
Filosofii dezbat de secole natura contractului dintre individ și societate.
Philosophers have debated for centuries the nature of the contract between the individual and society.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | societate | societăți |
| Genitive | societății | societăților |
| Accusative | societate | societăți |
| Vocative | societate | societăți |
Word family
socialsocialasociato associate
asociațieassociation
sociabilsociable, friendly
socializaresocialization
Etymology
Societate entered Romanian in the 19th century as a learned borrowing from French société, itself descended from Latin societas, societatis. This was part of the wave of French and Latin neologisms that reshaped Romanian vocabulary during that period, often replacing or sitting alongside older Slavic-derived terms. The Latin base is socius, meaning companion or ally, joined to the abstract noun suffix -tas.
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