Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române

This dictionary traces Romanian words back to their roots. It shows how they changed through time. It looks at their Latin roots. It shows links to other Romance languages, too. It also looks at older layers of the language. It traces words that came from other tongues. Entries link each word’s past to shifts in culture and social life.

Alexandru Ciorănescu wrote this work for readers drawn to Romanian and its past. Readers can use it to look up word roots. It shows how Romanian kept Latin traits and took in new words. Later loans came from Latin, French, and Italian.

The work first came out in Spanish in the 1950s. This hardcover edition has the text in Romanian.