The article describes the Romanian “peste” from the
point of view of cognitive linguistics, using the
metaphorical expressions containing “peste” based o
n “Dic
ţ
ionarul explicativ al limbii române” (Romanian
Explanatory Dictionary). The introductory part pres
ents metaphors and prepositions in general; then th
e central
(prototypical) meaning of “peste” is described cons
idering the findings of Romanian authors from the 1
970s up
to the 1990s, which is followed by the four metapho
rical cases in which “peste” was detected based on
the
corpus
