berbery, barberry

From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 16279
Date: 2002-10-15

Tthe latin name of this bush beeing "Berberis vulgaris"
The romanian name of this is "drĂ£cila"
I atake a look in DEX and I read as fallow:
drĂ£cila: bushy shrub, with pale-green deciduous leaves, etc.
Etymology: slavic "draCi", "dracije"
OK, I found it, I have the etymology , I am happy until I read
in another book this passage:
Apuleius:
"Galli popmpedulon, Dacii propedula alii d r o c i l a , Itali
quinquefolium"

Should I be surprised? Or the best thing to do is to consider
it a more coincidentaly cognates?