to stain, blot, speckle, smudge · to soil, taint, blemish
çekim: geçmiş pătat · ortaç pătat · şimdiki pătează
eş: murdări
köken: Probably from Vulgar Latin *pictāre, a verb based on Classical Latin pictus (“painted”). For the semantics, cf. Spanish pinta (“stain”) < pintar (“paint”, verb). The normal outcome of /kt/ is /pt/ in Romanian, but the loss of /p/ in this case can be explained as the result of dissimilation from the word-initial /p/. (Compare boteza < baptizāre and possibly pat < pactum.) Doublet of picta,…
stain, spot · a patch, a small area of land · penalty mark
çekim: çoğul pletter · tamlayan plets
köken: From or related to Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”). Compare Icelandic blettur (“stain, patch of land”) and Swedish plätt (“patch of land, small pancake”).