bucura

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Albanian bukur (“nice, beautiful”), but semantic difficulties exist. Alternatively, a substratum Dacian or other Paleo-Balkanic word, akin to Albanian. Another possible theory suggests a Vulgar Latin root *voculāre (“to call, yell”), from Latin vōcula, from vōx (“voice”), with meaning possibly confused with or influenced by *bacchulāre, from bacchor (“celebrate”), and that the Albanian word simply coincides with the Romanian one. It is also, contrary to folk etymology, probably not related to the name of the legendary shepherd Bucur, who according to popular belief gave his name to the capital city of Romania, București; the name itself may be a remnant of a lost pastoral word originally based on Latin buculus (“young bull, ox, steer”) (compare Old French bugle, French beugler, also Dalmatian buc). [1]

Verb

a bucura (third-person singular present bucură, past participle bucurat) 1st conj.

  1. be / become glad

Conjugation
    conjugation of bucura (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a bucura
gerund bucurând
past participle bucurat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present bucur bucuri bucură bucurăm bucurați bucură
imperfect bucuram bucurai bucura bucuram bucurați bucurau
simple perfect bucurai bucurași bucură bucurarăm bucurarăți bucurară
pluperfect bucurasem bucuraseși bucurase bucuraserăm bucuraserăți bucuraseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să bucur să bucuri să bucure să bucurăm să bucurați să bucure
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative bucură bucurați
negative nu bucura nu bucurați

Derived terms

References
  1. Romanian Explanatory Dictionary
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