Talk:doxologie

Romanian etymology

The article gives Ancient Greek (in which case it would be a learned borrowing and should be denoted as such using {{lbor}}), most dictionaries at dexonline give Modern Greek and only DN/MDN suggest a French intermediate. Additionally, we should clean up the whole of Category:Romanian_terms_borrowed_from_Ancient_Greek. @Robbie SWE, Bogdan Fytcha (talk) 18:32, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a religious term and many such terms were borrowed by Orthodox monks in 18th/early 19th century from Greek (rather than French; it would help to find the earlist usage, as French borrowings started around 1850). The official language of the Greek Orthodox Church is the Koine/Biblical Greek, which is a form of Ancient Greek. While many Romanian monasteries used Old Church Slavonic, there were some monasteries in Romania which used Greek, especially those linked to the Mount Athos monasteries (and providing money for their upkeep). ~

DEX doesn't list any words as being directly from Ancient Greek, which seems odd, considering that between 1694-1818, the only higher education institution in Wallachia had Ancient Greek as its language of instruction. Bogdan (talk)