noticia

Forms

noticia f (plural noticias)^[1] Old Spanish had the semi-learned form nodicia beside noticia: nodicia in Berceo's Vida de San Millán and the Libro de Alexandre, noticia in Berceo and Nebrija.^[2][3] The fueros of Alcalá and Salamanca also have nodicia.^[4]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin nōtitia (“knowledge; acquaintance”), first recorded in the semi-learned form nodicia.^[5][2][6][1] García de Diego notes the old Castilian form beside Old Galician-Portuguese nodiça, and calls the modern form learned.^[7] The same Latin word was taken as Portuguese notícia, Catalan notícia, French notice and Italian notizia.^{[8][9][10][11]}

The Latin noun is formed from nōtus (“known”) with the suffix -itia;^[12] the adjective is the participle of nōscō (“to get to know”), older gnōscō, which goes back to the present Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃-sḱé-.^[12][5][13] The same root gives conocer and the learned noble, noción and notorio.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Berceo's Vida de San Millán (c. 1230, known from an 18th-century copy) has the form nodicia: a man asks how many there are, ca qerié la nodicia e los nomnes saber “for he wanted to have word of them and know their names”.^[4][3] The first text without a later copy is Alfonso X's Judizios de las estrellas (1254), where it means news of an absent person: su noticia por sennales “news of him by signs”.^[4][14]

Semantic evolution

The Latin word meant “acquaintance, knowledge”, and in Late Latin legal use also “list, register, document”.^[12][11][15] In Spanish the sense “knowledge” long came first: Nebrija glossed it as conocimiento, Covarrubias as the knowledge of something, and the Diccionario de Autoridades put “knowledge of things” before “novelty, report” and gave the plural for the learning that makes someone erudite.^[16][17][18] The Academy kept noticia remota, a vague memory of something once known, from 1817, and in 1869 defined the second sense as “an event or novelty that is reported”.^[19][20]

Today the main sense is news, information worth spreading, and the plural las noticias also names the news programme on radio and television.^[6][21] The sense “knowledge, notion” survives mainly in phrases such as tener noticia de “to know of”.^[6][21]

Timeline

• 1220–1250 – first recorded.^[5]
• c. 1230 – Berceo has nodicia in the Vida de San Millán.^[4]
• 1254 – Alfonso X's Judizios de las estrellas has noticia in the sense “news”.^[14]
• 1513 – Nebrija's Vocabulario gives Latin notitia and notio.^[16]
• 1528 – the first record from the Americas, in Santa Marta.^[22]
• 1611 – Covarrubias defines it as the knowledge of something.^[17]
• 1817 – the Academy's dictionary records noticia remota.^[19]
• 1884 – the Academy's dictionary gives the etymology from Latin notitia.^[23]

Meanings

Noun

1. news: information about something considered worth making known: La noticia del acuerdo salió en todos los periódicos.^[6][1]
2. An event that has been made public: Su dimisión fue la gran noticia del día.^[6]
3. New information about a matter or a person: No tengo noticias de mi hermano desde mayo.^[6][21]
4. A notion or knowledge of a subject or matter.^[6]
5. (in the plural) The news programme on radio or television.^[21][24]

Word family

• noticiero
• noticioso
• anoticiar
• notición
• noticiar
• noticiario

Related words

• notorio
• notificar
• noción
• conocer
• Latin nōtitia

Usage notes

Noticia bomba is a sensational piece of news; its plural is noticias bomba.^[6][24] Atrasado de noticias is said of someone who has not heard what everyone knows.^[23]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 2, 176
3. ^ a b Cejador y Frauca, Julio (1929), Vocabulario medieval castellano, Madrid: Librería y Casa Editorial Hernando, p. 310
4. ^ a b c d Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. noticia
5. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. noticia
6. ^ a b c d e f g h Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. noticia
7. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. 4620
8. ^ Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 497
9. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. notícia
10. ^ Alcover, Antoni M.; Moll, Francesc de B. (1930–1962), Diccionari català-valencià-balear, 10 vols., Palma de Mallorca: Moll, p. s.v. notícia
11. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. notice
12. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. nōtitia
13. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill, p. s.v. nōscō
14. ^ a b Kasten, Lloyd A.; Nitti, John J.; Gago Jover, Francisco (2002–), Diccionario de la prosa castellana del Rey Alfonso X, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (electronic edition 2024), p. s.v. noticia
15. ^ Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill, p. s.v. notitia
16. ^ a b Nebrija, Antonio de (1513), Vocabulario español-latino, Salamanca, ed. Marina Vidal Díez (2007), Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, p. 387
17. ^ a b Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de (1611), Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, Madrid: Luis Sánchez (Biblioteca Wordkers transcription, CC BY 4.0), p. 1167
18. ^ Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 4, 681
19. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 602
20. ^ Real Academia Española (1869), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 11th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de Don Manuel Rivadeneyra, p. 541
21. ^ a b c d Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. noticia
22. ^ Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. noticia
23. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 743
24. ^ a b Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. noticia