ciumă

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ciumă

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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.

noun ciume · ciumă · ciuma · ciumele

feminine plague, pest, pestilence
Similar: pestă, pestilență
dated, feminine hilltop, hill peak
Similar: ciuc, vârf

In English

pestilence any highly contagious epidemic disease
plague specific disease "the Plague"
Black Death 14th century pandemic outbreak

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@misc{ciuma_2026,
  title = {ciumă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/cium%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}