colindă

See also: colinda and colindá

Romanian

Alternative forms
  • colind, corindă

Etymology

From Slavic kolęda, Old Church Slavonic колѧда (kolęda), itself from Latin kalendae, calendae. The Latin word probably left a lost or unattested Romanian word *cărinde (compare related word cărindar), which influenced or became crossed with the Slavic-derived version to make the variant form corindă.

Noun

colindă f (plural colinde)

  1. Christmas carol

Derived terms
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