furnică
Romanian
Alternative forms
- фурникэ (furnică) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Inherited from Latin formīca or furmīca, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *morwi-. Compare Aragonese fornica, Aromanian furnicã.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /furˈni.kə/
Audio (male voice): (file) Audio (female voice): (file) - Rhymes: -ikə
- Hyphenation: fur‧ni‧că
Noun
furnică f (plural furnici)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | furnică | furnica | furnici | furnicile | |
| genitive-dative | furnici | furnicii | furnici | furnicilor | |
| vocative | furnică, furnico | furnicilor | |||
Related terms
Further reading
- “furnică”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025