Noun: strai
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | strai |
| Sg. Def. | straiul |
| Pl. Indef. | straie |
| Pl. Def. | straiele |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | strai |
| Sg. Def. | straiului |
| Pl. Indef. | straie |
| Pl. Def. | straielor |
Vocative
| Singular | straiule |
| Plural | straielor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like strai
ionizator,
paleativ,
expresionism,
greement,
brahiblast,
serial,
sertar,
server,
belinograf,
septet,
sextet,
secret,
selsin,
monohibridism,
neologism,
cristalit,
incolinism,
safran,
safism,
sachet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain, but probably from a Slavic language; cf. Polish strój (“garment, clothing, attire”), Slovene srajca (“shirt”). When entering Romanian, it may have been taken as a diminutive (cf. the form străiță), and then later evolved to its current form. Compare Aromanian stranj, stranjiu (“clothing, garment”), which may or may not be a different word (cf. however, Serbo-Croatian tranja (“rag, tatter”), which may have influenced it). Alternative proposed etymologies include Vulgar Latin root *sternium or Latin stramen (“litter”). See also Friulian straie (“bed or layer of straw for a flock”), which may have a Slovene root as well, although it has also been attributed to Latin stragulus. See: Polish Nouns '
strój'.
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