"oțet"

Translation: vinegar

[deactivated user]

I see more Slavic roots in here - in Polish it's "ocet", which is basically pronounced just the same. :)

[Renardo_11]

Yes, Romanian does have slavic roots, being situated between Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine. An example is vreme (time, weather). It even has Hungarian and Turkish roots (such as tutun = tobacco). What do you expect from a language surrounded by languages from other families.

[AndrijAndrusiak]

Both Romanian 'oţet' and Polish 'ocet'/Ukrainian 'оцет' come from the Latin 'acetum'.

[Meepsicle83]

In English, the main component of vinegar is Acetic acid :)

[Ice-Kagen]

In Italian it's aceto, so the root is also te same ;)

[Pandrosion]

Interestingly enough, the loanword here isn't South Slavic but Western Slavic. In Serbian, "vinegar" is "sirće."

[zac2333]

Seems like the Serbian is from from Persian/Turkish "serkeh"/"sirke" :)

[Pandrosion]

Ooh, probably. We do have a lot of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish loanwords because of the Ottoman conquest. Thanks!

[Ces.10]

It is South Slavic too. Not sure about Serbia proper, but in both Croatia and BiH (R. Srpska) I have heard 'ocat'. I wasn't aware of the existence of the word 'sirće' tbh

[bigtimerush191]

same in Czech :)

[FaizalZahid]

Oh! I thought it's related to "oxy", meaning acid/sharp...cool to know that it's from Slavic

[DidiMissTake]

I didn't know what is vinegar, but I am slovenian so I knew what oțet means. Well, we call it kis but the vinegar acid is called ocetna kislina.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology

From Slavic оцьтъ (ocĭtŭ) (compare Serbo-Croatian ocat, Bulgarian оцет (ocet)), from Latin acetum.

Noun

oțet n

1) vinegar (condiment)

From Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/o%C8%9Bet

(Declension chart in Romanian Wiktionary)

Etimologie (oțet, plural oțeturi)

Din slavă ocĩtŭ < latină acetum.

Pronunție

AFI: /o'ʦet/

From Wikționar

https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/o%C8%9Bet

[_Dimitris_]

is the audio correct?

[violeta877655]

@Dimitris

https://dexonline.ro/definitie/o%C8%9Bet

It should be stressed/accentuated on the last syllable, IMHO.

[potestasity]

Yes (at least at the time of this reply, maybe not at the time of the comment :P )