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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic калоугерица (kalugerica). By surface analysis, călugăr (“monk”) + -iță. First attested in 1682.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈlu.ɡə.ri.t͡sə/, (alternative) /kə.lu.ɡəˈri.t͡sə/
- Rhymes: -uɡərit͡sə, -it͡sə
- Hyphenation: că‧lu‧gă‧ri‧ță
Noun
călugăriță f (plural călugărițe, masculine equivalent călugăr)
- nun
- Synonyms: maică, măicuță
1894, Ioan Slavici, “Maica Aegidia [Sister Aegidia]” (chapter 2), in Mara; published serially in Vatra, year 1, number 2, Bucharest, page 46:Maica Aegidia era cea maĭ fericită d’intre călugărițele de pe țĕrmul stêng al rîuluĭ.- [Maica Aegidia era cea mai fericită dintre călugărițele de pe țărmul stâng al râului.]
- Sister Aegidia was the happiest of the nuns on the left bank of the river.
- praying mantis
1983 August 20, Artur Silvestri, Luceafărul, year 26, number 33, Bucharest, page 7:Între timp, se dovedise că Ioana e o persoană de categoria „călugăriței“, atrăgînd bărbații spre a-i „devora“.- Meanwhile, it turned out that Ioana was a person of the sort of the “praying mantis”, luring men in order to “devour” them.
2021, Alina Cârâc, transl., Portofoliul fugii, Bucharest: Humanitas, translation of The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer, →ISBN:Pe masă […] stăteau două borcane mari de farmacie, în care Breton înmagazinase aproape o duzină de călugărițe.- On the table there stood two large apothecary jars, in which Breton had stored almost a dozen praying mantises.
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