Etymology

From LatinCategory:Aromanian terms inherited from Latin#FOAMECategory:Aromanian terms derived from Latin#FOAME famēs. Compare Romanian foame.

Noun

foame f (definite articulation foamea)Category:Aromanian lemmas#FOAMECategory:Aromanian nouns#FOAMECategory:Aromanian entries with incorrect language header#FOAMECategory:Aromanian feminine nouns#FOAMECategory:Pages with entries#FOAMECategory:Pages with 2 entries#FOAME

1. alternative form of foami

Alternative forms

• фоаме (foame) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Romanian terms inherited from Latin#FOAMECategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#FOAME famēs, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Romanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FOAME *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, French faim, Italian fame and Portuguese fome. The Romanian phonetic development was unusual in this case, with the diphthong -oa- normally resulting from a Latin -o-; however, compare the aforementioned Portuguese term, as well as Dalmatian fum and Romansh fom. The development in Romanian has garnered numerous explanations, neither of which are certain: some have attempted to explain it through influence from a derivative, atonal form, such as fometos < *fămetos, or, given the presence of the related foamete, possibly from confusion with the unrelated Latin fōmes, fōmitem (“tinder”) (note the parallelism between this and iască (“tinder”), from ēsca (“food”)); a somewhat similar phonetic occurrence is also found in words like înota (cf. also Italian nuotare).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo̯a.me/Category:Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation#FOAME

• Audio (male voice):

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• Audio (female voice):

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• Rhymes: -ameCategory:Rhymes:Romanian/ame#FOAMECategory:Rhymes:Romanian/ame/2 syllables#FOAME
• Hyphenation: foa‧me

Noun

foame f (uncountable)Category:Romanian lemmas#FOAMECategory:Romanian nouns#FOAMECategory:Romanian uncountable nouns#FOAMECategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#FOAMECategory:Romanian feminine nouns#FOAMECategory:Pages with entries#FOAMECategory:Pages with 2 entries#FOAME

1. hunger

   Mi-e foame.

   I'm hungry.

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   Te rog, dă-mi niște mâncare pentru că mor de foame.

   Please, give me some food because I'm dying of hunger.

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