cuvant

Cuvânt is a Romanian noun meaning "word." It denotes a unit of language that carries meaning and can be spoken or written. It functions as the basic building block used in forming phrases and sentences, and it can be used to refer to a specific lexical item or to language more generally.

In Romanian, cuvânt is masculine. The singular form is cuvânt, the definite singular is cuvântul. The plural form is cuvinte, and the definite plural is cuvintele. Words inflect for number and, depending on the form, participate in agreement with other elements in a sentence.

In everyday usage, cuvânt covers any specific lexical item, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech, while Romanian grammar also distinguishes between content words and function words. The expression "un cuvânt" means "a word," and phrases such as "un cuvânt de spus" (a word to say) appear in speech and literature.

In linguistics and education, cuvânt is used as the Romanian counterpart of the English term "word" when defining the basic units of language and their combinatorial rules. The term also shows up in idiomatic phrases, such as "cuvânt înainte" (foreword).

In computing and information technology, cuvânt is the standard Romanian translation for the concept of a "word" as a unit of data in a binary architecture, and is used in technical contexts to discuss word length, word size, and related notions.