validación

Forms

validación f (plural validaciones)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Spanish validar + -ción.^[1][2][3] The Spanish Wiktionary gives its Old Spanish form as validaçión.^[4] The verb goes back to validus (“strong, vigorous”), from valeō (“to be strong, be healthy”).^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

DICCA-XV dates its first record to 1434.^[2] The earliest hits in the CDH are in legal formulas of the 1440s and 1450s, where an act is strengthened para mejor corroboraçión e balidaçión “for better corroboration and validation” of what has been agreed.^[5] Antón de Zorita's translation of Honoré Bouvet's Árbol de batallas (c. 1440–1460) uses it for the legal force a thing gains with time.^[5]

Semantic evolution

The word belonged to the language of notaries: in the 16th century it appears in the same formulas in Puebla (1541), Chile (1569) and Mexico (1573).^[6] The Academy's 1884 dictionary gives the two senses still in the DLE: the act of validating, and the firmness or force of an act.^[7][8] Today it is also used of checking that something meets set conditions, as in science and administration.^[4][9]

Timeline

• 1434 – first record in DICCA-XV.^[2]
• 1442 – a Carta de compromiso has the spelling balidaçión.^[5]
• 1541 – first record from the Americas, in Puebla.^[6]
• 1884 – the Academy's dictionary defines it.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. validation: the act or effect of making something valid (válido): Falta la validación del título.^[8][9][1]
2. The firmness, force or lasting effect of an act.^[8][10]

Related words

• válido
• validez
• valer

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Lleal, Coloma (dir.), DICCA-XV: Diccionario del castellano del siglo XV en la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Grup d'Estudis d'Història de la Llengua (GHCL), https://ghcl.ub.edu/diccaxv, p. s.v. validación
3. ^ Echegaray, Eduardo de (1887–1889), Diccionario general etimológico de la lengua española, 5 vols., Madrid: José María Faquineto, p. 653
4. ^ a b Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org
5. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. validación
6. ^ a b 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. validación
7. ^ 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. 1069
8. ^ a b c 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. validación
9. ^ a b Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. validación
10. ^ Real Academia Española (2001), Diccionario de la lengua española, 22nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, p. s.v. validación