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vapor
ship /vaˈpor/
noun#3854 most common
Also: steamship, steamer, boat
Example sentences
Vaporul este mare.
The ship is big.
Ne urcăm pe vapor pentru o excursie.
We board the ship for a trip.
Vaporul a plecat din port dimineața devreme.
The ship left port early in the morning.
Familia noastră a călătorit cu vaporul spre Grecia anul trecut.
Our family traveled to Greece by ship last year.
În port erau ancorate mai multe vapoare mari, așteptând să fie încărcate cu marfă.
Several large ships were anchored in the port, waiting to be loaded with cargo.
Vapoarele acelea vechi, cu coca ruginită și fumul gros ridicându-se din coșuri, păreau desprinse dintr-o poveste de altădată.
Those old ships, with rusted hulls and thick smoke rising from their funnels, seemed to have stepped out of a tale from another era.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vapor | vapoare |
| Genitive | vaporului | vapoarelor |
| Accusative | vapor | vapoare |
| Vocative | vapor | vapoare |
Word family
vaporașsmall steamboat, ferry
a vaporizato vaporize
vaporizarevaporization
vaporizatorvaporizer, atomizer
vaporosgauzy, airy, diaphanous (of fabric)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "vapor" in the 19th century, during the wave of French and Italian loanwords that modernized the language. The source words, French "vapeur" and Italian "vapore", both mean "steam" and descend from Latin "vapor, vaporis". In Romanian the sense narrowed from the substance itself to the steam-powered vessel, and later to any large ship.
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