declaração

Forms

declaração f (plural declarações)^[1] Medieval texts write decrraraçom (1339), declaraçom, declaraçon (14th century) and decreraçam (15th century).^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin dēclārātiō (“a making known, disclosure”), a learned word.^[3][1][4][5] Nascentes calls it semi-learned, and Houaiss analyses it as a Portuguese formation, from Portuguese declarar + -ção;^[6][2][1] Wiktionary gives that analysis too, beside the Latin source.^[6][2][1] The Latin noun is formed from dēclārō (“to make known, declare”), which is dē- and clārō (“to make clear”).^[7][1]

Other Romance languages have the same learned word: Galician declaración, Spanish declaración, Catalan declaració, French déclaration and Italian dichiarazione.^[1][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss's first record is decrraraçom in a text of 1339 from Cunha's index of medieval Portuguese.^[2] A notarial book of Noia in Galicia, in 1412, uses declaraçón for the sworn statement that witnesses make before the notary.^[9] The Horto do Esposo (witness 1390–1437) writes declaraçom.^[10]

Semantic evolution

In the 16th and 17th centuries the dictionaries render it with Latin words for “explanation, interpretation”: Cardoso's interpretatio and expositio, Barbosa's explicatio and declaratio.^[11][12] Morais (1789) lists “explanation”, the declaration of war, the declaration of one's goods to the authorities, and testimony.^[13] Vieira adds the document by which something is declared.^[14] The modern dictionaries add the declaration of love.^[15][2] In tax use declaração de renda is the return of one's income.^[2]

Timeline

• 1339 – decrraraçom in a text of Cunha's index.^[2]
• 14th century – declaraçom and declaraçon.^[2][3]
• 1412 – declaraçón, the sworn statement of witnesses, in a Galician notarial book of Noia.^[9]
• 1430 – declaraçom in the Horto do Esposo.^[10]
• 1569 – Cardoso's dictionary has Declaração.^[11]
• 1789 – Morais lists the declaration of war and of goods.^[13]
• 1871 – Vieira: the act and the written document by which something is declared.^[14]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of declaring; an oral or written statement or announcement.^[2][1][16]
2. A formal list of goods, merchandise or income submitted to the authorities: declaração de bens, declaração de renda.^[2][4]
3. A declaration of love: fazer uma declaração.^[2][17]
4. An official proclamation; a decree: declaração de guerra.^[2][14]
5. An explanation; a deposition or testimony, mostly in the plural: prestar declarações.^[2][1][4]
6. A document that contains a declaration; an affidavit.^[2][1]
7. (law) A legally valid expression of a person's will.^[17]
8. (linguistics) An assertion.^[2]

Related words

• declarar
• declarativo
• claro
• Latin dēclārātiō
• Spanish declaración

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. declaração
3. ^ a b c Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. declamar
4. ^ a b c Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. declaração
5. ^ Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. declaração
6. ^ a b Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. declaração
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
8. ^ 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
9. ^ a b Instituto da Lingua Galega, Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval (DDGM), ed. Ernesto González Seoane, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, https://ilg.usc.gal/ddgm, p. s.v. declaraçon
10. ^ a b Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, CTA – Corpus de Textos Antigos, https://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cta, p. s.v. declaraçom
11. ^ a b Cardoso, Jerónimo (1569–1570), Dictionarium ex lusitanico in latinum sermonem, Lisboa: João Álvares (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. declaração
12. ^ Barbosa, Agostinho (1611), Dictionarium lusitanicolatinum, Braga: Fructuoso Lourenço de Basto (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. declaração
13. ^ a b Silva, António de Morais (1789), Diccionario da lingua portugueza composto pelo padre D. Rafael Bluteau, reformado, e accrescentado, 2 vols., Lisboa: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, p. 1, 364
14. ^ a b c Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 2, 724
15. ^ Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. declaração
16. ^ Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. declaração
17. ^ a b Porto Editora (2013), Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, Porto: Porto Editora, p. 2701