The paper discusses partitive and pseudo-partitive constructions in Old and Modem Romanian. The main claim is that Old Romanian featured a partitive preposition de separating two fully-fledged DPs. The corresponding partitive structure in Modem Romanian employs (mainly) two partitive prepositions din ‘of-in’and dintre ‘of-among’, the former partitive preposition ‘de’being reserved for pseudo-partitive constructions consisting of a single DP structure. There is one remnant de partitive construction-the possessive partitive (Comilescu 2006). The paper claims that there is one more remnant de partitive in Modem Romanian-the demonstrative partitive.