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tron
throne /ˈtron/
noun#2935 most common
Also: seat of royal power (figurative), coffin (regional, Moldova)
Example sentences
Regele stă pe tron.
The king sits on the throne.
Tronul este vechi și frumos.
The throne is old and beautiful.
Prințul va urca pe tron anul viitor.
The prince will ascend to the throne next year.
După moartea regelui, tronul a rămas fără moștenitor.
After the king's death, the throne remained without an heir.
Lupta pentru tron a divizat regatul timp de decenii.
The struggle for the throne divided the kingdom for decades.
Istoricii dezbat încă modul în care conspirațiile de la curte au subminat legitimitatea tronului.
Historians still debate how the court conspiracies undermined the legitimacy of the throne.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tronul | tronurile |
| Genitive | tronului | tronurilor |
| Accusative | tronul | tronurile |
| Vocative | tron | tronuri |
Word family
detronato dethrone
detronaredethronement
detronatdethroned
tronulean/domnescroyal, of the throne (descriptive usage, not a direct derivative)
Etymology
Romanian "tron" descends from Latin "thronus", itself borrowed from Greek "thronos" (seat, chair of state). The word likely entered Romanian through French "trône" during the 19th-century wave of Western re-Latinization, alongside many other court and administrative terms. In some regional varieties, mainly in Moldova, "tron" also means "coffin", a separate sense probably drawn from a Slavic source rather than from Latin.
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