ciumă

== Romanian == === Etymology === Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages, and Albanian qime. === Pronunciation === === Noun === ciumă f (plural ciume) plague, pest, pestilence Synonyms: pestă, (literary) pestilență (dated) hilltop, hill peak Synonyms: ciuc, vârf ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Belarusian: чума (čuma) → Bulgarian: чума (čuma) → Greek: čούμα (čoúma), ǧούμα (ǧoúma) → Macedonian: чума (čuma) → Ottoman Turkish: چوما (çuma) → Polish: dżuma → Russian: чума (čuma) → Serbo-Croatian: čȕma / чу̏ма → Tatar: чума (çuma) → Ukrainian: чума (čuma) ==== See also ==== plagă ==== References ====