Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic колѧда (kolęda), from Proto-Slavic *kolęda, itself from Latin kalendae, calendae. The Latin word probably left a lost or unattested Romanian word *cărinde (compare related word cărindar), which influenced or became crossed with the Slavic-derived version to make the variant form corindă.
colindă f (plural colinde)
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | colindă | colinda | colinde | colindele | |
| genitive-dative | colinde | colindei | colinde | colindelor | |
| vocative | colindă, colindo | colindelor | |||