versión

Forms

versión f (plural versiones)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin versiō (“change, transformation; translation”), a learned derivative of Latin vertō (“to turn”).^[2][1][3] Medieval Latin formed the action noun from the verb with the suffix -tiō;^[4] Classical Latin had related nouns such as versūra (“a turning”) and versus (“furrow, line”).^[4] The Spanish word is thus a learned relative of verter, the popular continuation of the same verb.^[3][5][6]

The Academy long derived the word from the supine of the verb; the present DLE gives the Medieval Latin noun.^[7][8][2] Corominas compares French version, recorded as “translation” in 1548.^[3]

The Latin verb goes back to Proto-Italic *wertō, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”), and is related to Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to become”).^[9][10]

Earliest recorded meaning

The earliest hit in the CDH that is the word itself is in Vicente de Burgos's translation of the De proprietatibus rerum (1494): segund dize el maestro de las istorias en la fin de la su version de Sodoma “as the master of the histories says at the end of his account of Sodom”.^[11] The DTME also dates the Spanish word from 1494.^[12] Corominas found it first in Lope de Vega, through Autoridades, and dates it to the beginning of the 17th century;^[3][13][14] Segura Munguía gives the beginning of the 16th.^[3][13][14]

Semantic evolution

Bénaben describes the development as a move from translation from one language into another to a person's own interpretation, su versión de los hechos.^[6] The Academy's 1899 edition already had both senses, “translation” and “the way each person tells the same event”, and an obstetric one: the turning of a fetus that lies badly for birth.^[7] In the Americas the word is recorded from 1791 in Lima, of laborious translations.^[15] A text from Buenos Aires of 1870 uses it of contradictory accounts.^[15]

Later editions added each of the forms that the text of a work, the account of an event or the treatment of a theme can take.^[8][2] Today it is also a new recording of a song by another performer (a cover) and a release of a program or product.^[1][16] The verb versionar belongs with it.^[1]

Timeline

• 1494 – Vicente de Burgos's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus uses version of the story of Sodom.^[11][12]
• early 17th century – Lope de Vega uses it, the first record Corominas gives.^[3][13]
• 1791 – first record from the Americas, in Lima, in the sense “translation”.^[15]
• 1899 – the Academy defines it as “translation”, “the way each person tells an event” and the obstetric operation.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A translation (traducción): the act of translating a text, or the text that results.^[2][16]
2. The way a particular person tells an event; an account: Cada testigo dio una versión distinta.^[2][17]
3. Each of the forms that the account of an event, the text of a work or the treatment of a theme takes; a version.^[2][1]
4. (music) A new performance or recording of a song first recorded by someone else; a cover version.^[1][18]
5. (medicine) An operation that changes the position of a fetus that lies badly for birth.^[2][12]

Related words

• versionar
• verter
• verso
• conversión
• inversión
• Latin vertō

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g 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. versión
3. ^ a b c d e f Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 5, 791
4. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. versio
5. ^ Gómez de Silva, Guido (1988), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica / El Colegio de México
6. ^ a b Bénaben, Michel (2000), Dictionnaire étymologique de l'espagnol, Paris: Ellipses
7. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (1899), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 13th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de los Sres. Hernando y Compañía, p. 1015
8. ^ a b Real Academia Española (2001), Diccionario de la lengua española, 22nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, p. s.v. versión
9. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. verto
10. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
11. ^ a b Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE
12. ^ a b c Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (2011), Diccionario de términos médicos, Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana; online at https://dtme.ranm.es, p. s.v. versión
13. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. verter
14. ^ a b Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 833
15. ^ a b c Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
16. ^ a b Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. versión
17. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. versión
18. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org