"A century is not a year."
Translation:Un secol nu este un an.
July 9, 2017
4 Comments
They're synonyms, so both should be accepted. "Secol" should be the default, though; "veac" is more archaic/poetic.
July 9, 2017
FilipFilip17
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I was really surprised to see this word. I know it from my native language, Serbian. Although in it, it's "vek".
August 3, 2017
Same as Russian век for century. And funnily enough not at all related to vechi (old) but rather to an assumed Indoeuropean word for "overcome", which turned into Latin vincere (win, but English win has different roots) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/v%C4%9Bk%D1%8A
August 31, 2017
