bretelă

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French bretelle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /breˈte.lə/
  • Rhymes: -elə
  • Hyphenation: bre‧te‧lă

Noun

bretelă f (plural bretele) (proscribed)

  1. (rail transport) diamond crossover
  2. communication trench (perpendicular connection between two parallel trenches in trench warfare)
  3. alternative form of bretea (“strap”)

Usage notes

Since its third edition (2021), the Romanian Academy’s prescriptive dictionary has stated bretea to be the single correct form, common both to the clothing- and the transport-related senses.[1] Actual usage does not however reflect this.

Declension

Declension of bretelă
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bretelă bretela bretele bretelele
genitive-dative bretele bretelei bretele bretelelor
vocative bretelă, bretelo bretelelor

References

  1. ^ “bretea”, in Dicționarul ortografic, ortoepic și morfologic al limbii române (in Romanian), 3rd edition, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, 2021, →ISBN

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