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Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin origin, as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified in Neolatin idioms like the Provensal, Romansh, Sardinian, Corsican, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. (For example, the aforementioned "cale/path" seems to have an equivalent in Dalmatian, an extinct Romance language, while pitic (midget) considered of Slavic/Greek origin seems extremely common in Romance along with the related pici (small boy, kid) - see here and here.)

This greatly increases the possibility for Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages to be eventually identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.

Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin origin, as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified in Neolatin idioms (see Dan Ungureanu here) like the Provensal, Romansh, Sardinian, Corsican, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. - For example, the aforementioned "cale/path" seems to have an equivalent in Dalmatian, an extinct Romance language, while pitic (midget) considered of Slavic/Greek origin seems extremely common in Romance along with the related pici (small boy, kid) - see here and here. - Ungureanu also mentions words that were considered pre-Latin, and thus possibly of Dacian/Balkan origin, which in fact have non-Latin but still Italian origin, brought in by the same path of Roman conquest as the Latin words.)

Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages may eventually be identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.

• cale (way, path) comes from callis (rough path trodden by animals, subsequently any path) and is the main term which in other Romance languages is based on via

• the word for ”groom” (mire) might come from miles, ”soldier” - as said in Boerescu - Etimologii românești..., page 436:

These few exceptions come only in the context of a large common background. When Romanian shows words of "original" Latin roots this happens on this background and the phenomenon loses the exceptionalism suggested in the question, given all other Neolatin languages have their specific traits in this regard.

Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin origin, as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified in Neolatin idioms like the Provensal, Romansh, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. This greatly increases the possibility for Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages to be eventually identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.

• cale (way, road, path, means) comes from callis (rough path trodden by animals, subsequently any road) and is the main term which in other Romance languages is based on via (more here)

• the word for ”groom” (mire) might come from miles, ”soldier” - as said in Boerescu - Etimologii românești..., page 436:

These few exceptions come only in the context of a large common background. When Romanian shows words of "original" Latin roots this happens on this background and the phenomenon loses the exceptionalism suggested in the question, given other Neolatin languages show marginal traits of exceptionalism.

Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin origin, as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified in Neolatin idioms like the Provensal, Romansh, Sardinian, Corsican, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. (For example, the aforementioned "cale/path" seems to have an equivalent in Dalmatian, an extinct Romance language, while pitic (midget) considered of Slavic/Greek origin seems extremely common in Romance along with the related pici (small boy, kid) - see here and here.)

This greatly increases the possibility for Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages to be eventually identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.

Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin Origin as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified found in Neolatin idioms like the Provensal, Romansh, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. This greatly increases the possibility for Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages to be eventually identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.

Local languages of Western Romance with more similarities with the Romanian context (isolated, rural) prove a reach pool of words common with Romanian, to the point that a lot of Romanian words of confirmed Latin origin, as well as words considered to belong to pre-Roman substrate have been recently identified in Neolatin idioms like the Provensal, Romansh, and dialects of different Italian and Spanish regions. This greatly increases the possibility for Latin roots present in Romanian but possibly absent in the other four main Neolatin languages to be eventually identified in regional languages and dialects of Western Romance.