sâneca

• sinica
• sineca

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *sānicāre, from Latin sānus. Less likely from a root *signicāre (“make the sign of the cross”), referring to one’s morning prayers. Preserved only in popular spells.

• IPA^(key): /sɨ.niˈka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: sâ‧ni‧ca

a sâneca (third-person singular present sânecă, past participle sânecat) 1st conj.

1. (reflexive, regional) to wake up in the morning

   Synonyms: se deștepta, se scula, se trezi, (regional) se pomeni

   • Love spell gathered by T. Popovici from Epureni, Vaslui County, Moldavia; published in Ion Creangă, year 3, number 4, Bârlad, 1910 April, page 109:

     M’am sânecat și m’am mânecat
     Și dimineață m’am sculat; […]

     I woke up and I got up
     And I woke up in the morning;

Almost always found in formulaic association with its synonym mâneca.

• sănătos

• sâneca in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1990), “sinecá”, in Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 10, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 959