reteza

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • răteza

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Common Slavic rĕzati ("shorten"), but this presents phonetic difficulties. Another possibility may be a Latin root *retizāre ("cut branches hanging above water") < retae, or *retundiāre (compare French rogner), or from Greek αίρετίζω ("to choose"). Starting with the meaning of "cutting tree branches" and therefore extending it to "cleaning", it could also be based on a variant of a hypothetical verb *neteza, from Latin *nitidiāre < nitidus (compare Romanian neted, netezi); see also the relation between necheza and râncheza. [1]

Verb

a reteza (third-person singular present retează, past participle retezat) 1st conj.

  1. to chop off, cut off, hew off, lop off, sever, dock, cut
  2. to clean or cut off honeycombs from a beehive

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