>to invite.. don't worry, I seen worse regarding the semantism:))
>The latin comparare= to compare should have give in Rom "cumpãra"
>= to buy, forgeting the word "para"= money...eh.. this is a nice
>hobby:) para= turkish word, etymology of Rom. word so my
>DEX (no idea what means in turkish this word , mybe this means
>too money).
Have a look at the vocabulary of some Romance languages
to see whether there are correspondents for the Romanian
"cumpara + cumparare + cumparat".
As far as the coin name "pará" is concerned:
your DEX must inform you at least that "para" (the 2nd
syllable is stressed) was a certain coin, namely for
instance 1/100 of 1 leu .
Then Google'll reveal to you various paras, either Turkish
or from other countries. (Arab "bara" seems to mean
"silver". The initial Turkish "pará" was a silver coin and
circulated as such in the Romanian lands as well in the 18th
century.) E.g.:
Moldavia:
"parale"
http://www.geocities.com/monedaria/dictionar.htm
18th century
http://www.geocities.com/romaniancoins/1para.html
Egypt, 4 para (1863)
http://www.muenzen-hardelt.de/aeg-4p63.html
Turkey:
(from a good introduction into the subj. of
Turkish numismatics:)
<<Im Gegensatz zum Reichtum in Europa, wozu mehrere
Tonnen Silber und Gold beitrug, die von spanischen und
portugiesischen Seeleuten aus Amerika gebracht wurden,
verlor die osmanische akçe aufgrund der Inflation zwischen
1585 und 1640 an Wert, so dass mehrere Münzstätten
geschlossen werden mussten. In der Herrschaftszeit von
Murat IV. wurde die para" genannte Münze geprägt, die
leichter als die akçe war. Es wurden nur noch in
Konstantiniye und in den südlichen Provinzen Münzen
geprägt.>>
http://www.kultur.gov.tr/portal/tarih_de.asp?belgeno=5353
Yugoslavia
http://www.nbj.yu/english/7_0.htm
George
PS: there is no link betw. "cumparare" & "pará"
other than the fact that once Romanians, too, made
payments for goods and services by spending "paras"
(in Rumanian, plural, "parale) among many other coins
they had in use (both their own, minted on Romanian
territory, or issued abroad, e.g. by Austria, Russia,
Poland, Hungary).