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Romanian

Romanian

9 2.8
A person born in Romania or who has citizenship of that country
  • noun
  • /roʊˈmeɪniən/
translation icon : rumano
  • As a Romanian citizen, she takes pride in her country's rich history and culture.
  • Romanians and Hungarians
  • Romanians and Bulgarians
  • many Romanians

Now you have the Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Yugoslavs as enemies.

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Examples

  • Predominantly self-identifying as Romanian Orthodox, many Romanians seem to be practicing secularists.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Amid the euphoria of communism's demise, as the historian Lucian Boia wrote, Romanians won their freedom, and "it seemed that freedom would solve everything."

    Academic text (2010)
  • The amazing thing was that my wife, a Romanian, commented: "It is a bit expensive."

    Blog text (15)
  • Well, all I can say is the Romanians have a good taste in football teams, right?

  • We've been friends a long time now and the young man, the Romanian guy is also a wonderful man and brilliant.

  • Like all Romanians, we have passion, and great passion for the game, but my team plays with a will of steel.

  • I do, however, find it interesting to hear how Romanians react to American humor.

    Blog text (21)
  • Finally allowed by the government to travel freely, Romanians were subject to suspicion and harsh visa restrictions from abroad.

    Academic text (2010)
  • After Russia, the second highest number of Moldovan migrants went to Italy—where ethnic Romanians find high wages and a similar language.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Hungary's non-German population consisted not only of Magyars, but also large numbers of Croats, Romanians, Serbs, Slovaks, and Ukrainians.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

Rumanian
vsRomanian
  • Archaic
1 3.4

A person from Romania

denotes a person with official citizenship rather than mere residence

Compounds

A language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova

Surface Forms

Romanian singular
Romanians plural

Morphology

Romanian = Romania (transparent) = Romania + ian

The demonym is formed from the country name 'Romania' with the regular suffix '-ian', so 'Romanian' meaning a person from Romania is directly predictable.

Etymology

Romanian for a person comes from the Latin word Romanus, 'of Rome'. The country name Romania means 'land of the Romans', so a Romanian is someone from that country.