deosebit

Past participle of deosebi. First attested in c. 1690.

• IPA^(key): /de.o.seˈbit/

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• Rhymes: -it
• Hyphenation: de‧o‧se‧bit

deosebit m or n (feminine singular deosebită, masculine plural deosebiți, feminine and neuter plural deosebite)

1. (now uncommon) separate, apart
   • 1905, Nicolae Iorga, Istoria românilor în chipuri și icoane‎, volume 2, Bucharest: Socec, archived from the original on 8 July 2023, page 198:

     Armeniĭ îșĭ aveaŭ mahalaua lor deosebită.

     The Armenians had their own separate neighbourhood.

2. different, distinct
   • 1968, Alexandru Ivasiuc, Interval‎, Bucharest: Editura pentru Literatură, archived from the original on 8 July 2023, page 212:

     […] fiecare fată se poate transforma devenind tot mai mult mama ei, chiar dacă la un moment dat par atît de deosebite.

     any girl can transform, becoming more and more like her mother, though they may at one point look so different.

3. special, unusual, remarkable, prominent, great
4. (especially of people) distinguished through good qualities
5. (in the plural, preposited, uncommon) diverse, various

• (separate): separat
• (different): diferit, distinct
• (various): diferit, divers, felurite

• osebit

• în mod deosebit ― especially, to a high degree

deosebit

1. (now uncommon) separately
2. (modifies adjectives, succeeded by de) especially, extremely, very

deosebit (past participle of deosebi)

1. past participle of deosebi

• deosebit in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Marius Sala, Gheorghe Mihăilă, editors (2006), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 1, part 4, pages 440–442