foame

== Aromanian == === Etymology === From Latin famēs. Compare Romanian foame. === Noun === foame f (definite articulation foamea) alternative form of foami == Romanian == === Alternative forms === фоаме (foame) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling === Etymology === Inherited from Latin famēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, French faim, Italian fame and Portuguese fome. The Romanian phonetic development was unusual in this case, with the diphthong -oa- normally resulting from a Latin -o-; however, compare the aforementioned Portuguese term, as well as Dalmatian fum and Romansh fom. The development in Romanian has garnered numerous explanations, neither of which are certain: some have attempted to explain it through influence from a derivative, atonal form, such as fometos < *fămetos, or, given the presence of the related foamete, possibly from confusion with the unrelated Latin fōmes, fōmitem (“tinder”) (note the parallelism between this and iască (“tinder”), from ēsca (“food”)); a somewhat similar phonetic occurrence is also found in words like înota (cf. also Italian nuotare). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfo̯a.me/ Rhymes: -ame Hyphenation: foa‧me === Noun === foame f (uncountable) hunger ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== fometos înfometa foamete ==== See also ==== sete === References ===