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sticlă
glass (the material) /ˈsti.klə/
noun#895 most common
Also: bottle, pane of glass
Example sentences
Sticla e goală.
The bottle is empty.
Pun apă în sticlă.
I put water in the bottle.
Am cumpărat o sticlă de vin pentru cină.
I bought a bottle of wine for dinner.
Geamul ferestrei e făcut din sticlă transparentă.
The window pane is made of transparent glass.
Muncitorii reciclează sticla pentru a proteja mediul.
The workers recycle glass to protect the environment.
Fabrica produce sticlă rezistentă la temperaturi extreme, folosită în industria aerospațială.
The factory produces glass resistant to extreme temperatures, used in the aerospace industry.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sticlă | sticle |
| Genitive | sticlei | sticlelor |
| Accusative | sticlă | sticle |
| Vocative | sticlo | sticlelor |
Word family
sticlarglassmaker, glazier
sticlărieglassware, glass factory
sticlosglassy, glass-like
sticluțăsmall bottle, vial
Etymology
Sticlă entered Romanian from Old Church Slavonic stĭklo, meaning glass. The word spread across the Slavic languages long before Romanian borrowed it, likely through contact with Slavic-speaking populations in the early medieval Balkans. Its ultimate origin beyond Slavic is disputed among etymologists, so no further root is claimed here. Romanian kept both the material sense, glass, and extended it to the everyday sense of bottle.
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