număra

See also: numara

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nu.məˈra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: nu‧mă‧ra

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin numerāre.

Verb

a număra (third-person singular present numără, past participle numărat, third-person subjunctive numere) 1st conjugation

  1. (intransitive) to count (say numbers in order)
  2. (transitive) to count (determine the number of)
  3. (reflexive) to number among, be one of [with printre or între]
    • 2012 May 1, Raluca Dan, Adevărul[1], number 6710, →ISSN, page 17:
      Ana Corea s-a numărat însă printre cei mai norocoși.
      Ana Corea, however, counted among the luckier.
  4. (transitive, uncommon) to number (amount to, have a certain quantity)
  5. (transitive, uncommon) to count among, count as (put in a certain category)
  6. (transitive, obsolete) to pay money
    • 1844 July 9, “Tunsul [The Shorn One]”, in Alecu Donici, transl., Propășirea [Progress], number 26 (serial story), Iași, translation of original by Alexander Veltman, page 206:
      Ѫn Валахіа mікъ, Тᲈnсᲈл а черᲈт dе ла боерюл че тръеа ѫn сатᲈл Коzіа апроапе dе mᲈnці̆ ка съ’і̆ nᲈmере dоъ сᲈте галбеnі̆, ѫnсъ nᲈ Аᲈстріеnі̆ че олаndеzі̆ nоі̆; []
      În Valahia mică, Tunsul a cerut de la boeriul ce trăia în satul Cozia aproape de munți ca să-i numere două sute galbeni, însă nu austrieni ce olandezi noi; []
      In Lesser Wallachia, the Shorn One asked of the boyar who lived in the village of Cozia near the mountains to pay him two hundred guilders, but not Austrian, but new Dutch ones; []
  7. (transitive, obsolete) synonym of enumera (to enumerate)
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) to reckon, believe
    Synonym: socoti
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin nomināre. Doublet of nomina, a later borrowing which has itself gone out of use.

Verb

a număra (third-person singular present numără, past participle numărat, third-person subjunctive numere) 1st conjugation (obsolete)

  1. (transitive) to call, name
    Synonym: numi
  2. (transitive) to read
    Synonym: citi
    • c. 15th C., Voroneț Codex, folio 28v, lines 7–8; edited in Mariana Costinescu, editor, Codicele Voronețean, Bucharest: Minerva, 1981, page 284:
      дѣчинᲂумъръ​гїемонꙋ​каσᲅѧ. []
      Deaci numără ghiemonu carrtea []
      So the governor read the letter [] (Acts 23:18)
    • [c. 1650, Anonymus Caransebesiensis (overall work in Latin), page 98, line 2929; edited in Gheorghe Chivu, editor, Dictionarium valachico-latinum: Primul dicționar al limbii române, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, 2008, →ISBN, page 105:
      Númer. Numero. Lego.]

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