Noun: străin
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | străin |
| Sg. Def. | străinul |
| Pl. Indef. | străini |
| Pl. Def. | străinii |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | străin |
| Sg. Def. | străinului |
| Pl. Indef. | străini |
| Pl. Def. | străinilor |
Vocative
| Singular | străinule |
| Plural | străinilor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like străin
heterocromozom,
miliamper,
următor,
miliardar,
meseriaș,
paleolog,
sforar,
ichilic,
brahicefal,
iciolan,
urloier,
nevointaș,
serdar,
serval,
setter,
sectar,
seimen,
senzor,
sensal,
radiooperator, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin extrāneus, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form; the expected normal phonetic result in Romanian from the base Latin word would be *strâi, so it must have come from a derivative form. It is likely that Latin extraneus produced several popular altered variant or derived forms (cf. Italian/Tuscan straino, Calabrian strainu ("without a master")). Several conjectures exist but none have arrived at a definitive and universally accepted etymology: one possibility is through a metathesized form *extrainu (cf. Romanian roib < rubeus, aibă < habeat); other proposals include Latin exterraneus, or *exterrinus, or *extralienus. The now obsolete 16th century derivative astrina, astriirat indicates it is almost surely an inherited term. See: Latin Nouns '
extrāneus', Latin Nouns '
extrāneus'.
Verbs referencing "străin"
Catalan Nouns
estrany.
Translations