vântă
Romanian
Alternative forms
- vintă
Etymology
Possibly from Latin vānitās (compare the neological borrowing vanitate), or alternatively derived from a now lost early Romanian verb *vânta, itself from the Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre (whence Italian vantare, French vanter), from Latin vānitās, from vānus[1].
Noun
vântă f (plural vinte)
- (archaic, regional) fame, aggrandizement, glory
Synonyms
- (fame): faimă, mărire, glorie
References
- http://dex.anidescoala.ro/cuvant/vinta