Noun: sâmbure
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | sâmbure |
| Sg. Def. | sâmburele |
| Pl. Indef. | sâmburi |
| Pl. Def. | sâmburii |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | sâmbure |
| Sg. Def. | sâmburelui |
| Pl. Indef. | sâmburi |
| Pl. Def. | sâmburilor |
Vocative
| Singular | sâmbure |
| Plural | sâmburilor |
Sample Sentences
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sâmbure de vișină (sour cherry pit)
Nouns inflected like sâmbure
brusture,
bulgăre,
nasture,
păduche,
staroste,
principe,
ciucure,
pieptene,
strugure,
latrone,
câine,
pește,
sporange,
șoarece,
mărăcine,
perciune,
ciorchine,
viezure,
cărbune,
arbure, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
One theory is that it comes from Albanian: compare sumbull, dialectal variant of standard thumbull (“button”), diminutive of thumb (“sting”). Alternatively, it may be a substratum word, akin to the Albanian one, or from a Vulgar Latin root *sumbola, symbola, from Latin symbolus, from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”). Compare Aromanian sãmburi, shambãrã, sãmburã. See: Latin Nouns '
symbolus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σύμβολον'.
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