genune

• genună
• (regional, Transylvania) gerune
• (archaic) gerure, geroe

Probably from Latin caerula (“pertaining to the sea”) (likely through an initial early Romanian form *cerure or *cerură, which underwent changes due to dissimilation and other processes, perhaps derhotacization; see some of the above dialectal or archaic alternative forms such as gerure, which were more conservative in pronunciation); some variants possibly derive from the form caerulea. Another theory instead suggests a Vulgar Latin root *gironem / gyronem, from *gyro (“whirlpool”), presumably stemming ultimately from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros)[1].

genune f (plural genuni)

1. (often literary, poetic) chasm, abyss, precipice
2. (archaic) sea

• (chasm, precipice): prăpastie, abis, râpă
• (sea): mare