bucura

• Possibly borrowed from Albanian bukur (“nice, beautiful”), but semantic difficulties exist.
• Alternatively, a substrate Dacian or other Paleo-Balkanic word, akin to Albanian.
• Another possible theory suggests a Vulgar Latin root *voculāre (“to call, yell”), from Latin vōcula, from vōx (“voice”), with meaning possibly confused with or influenced by *bacchulāre, from bacchor (“celebrate”), and that the Albanian word simply coincides with the Romanian one.
• It is also, contrary to folk etymology, probably not related to the name of the legendary shepherd Bucur, who according to popular belief gave his name to the capital city of Romania, București; the name itself may be a remnant of a lost pastoral word originally based on Latin buculus (“young bull, ox, steer”) (compare Old French bugle, French beugler, also Dalmatian buc). [1]

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a bucura (third-person singular present bucură, past participle bucurat) 1st conj.

1. (reflexive) be / become glad or happy

• bucurie
• bucuros

• București