siteurile

Siteurile is the Romanian definite plural form of the noun site, meaning the sites. The term is most commonly used to refer to websites, but it can also denote physical locations when the English loanword site is used in a broader sense. The word arrived in Romanian as a loanword from English and became widespread in information technology and media discourse.

In Romanian, the indefinite plural is siteuri, while the definite plural is site-urile, written with a hyphen to connect the stem to the definite suffix. The hyphenated form is the normative spelling; in informal writing, some authors may still write siteurile, but the preferred form is site-urile. The noun is masculine: un site, două site-uri, site-ul, site-urile.

Usage and meaning: the term primarily denotes a web resource, such as a homepage, a portal, or a collection of related pages. Example: Am vizitat site-urile de știri (I visited the news websites). In plural, the definite form appears in contexts where the specific websites have been previously mentioned or are known from context. Outside digital contexts, Romanian uses sit for an archaeological site or location; site is typically reserved for web-related meaning.

See also: site (etymology and loanwords), pagina web, adresă URL, domeniu.