nasture

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown. Compare Italian nastro. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *nastula, from Proto-West Germanic *nastilu, or alternatively borrowed from the Italian word several centuries ago in the early modern era, originally in a form *nastru, with a plural *nastruri, with the loss of the first -r- and made singular analogically later.

Noun[edit]

nasture m (plural nasturi)

  1. button (clothing)

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