notícia

Forms

notícia f (plural notícias)^[1] Medieval texts write noticia, notiçia and nutitia.^[2][3] The dictionaries from Cardoso (1569) to Morais (1789) head the word noticia.^[4][5][6]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin nōtitia (“being known; acquaintance, knowledge”), first recorded as Old Galician-Portuguese noticia in a document of 1394.^[2][7][1] Nascentes counts it as semi-learned.^[8] An inherited form of the same Latin word, Old Galician-Portuguese nodiça, appears in a Galician text of 1242–1252, but it left no trace in the modern language.^[3][9]

The Latin word is also the source of Galician noticia, Spanish noticia, Catalan notícia, Italian notizia and French notice.^[1] The Spanish word is likewise a learned borrowing, recorded from 1220–1250, and the French one was borrowed in 1369.^[10][11]

The Latin noun is formed from nōtus (“known”), the past participle of nōscō (“to get to know”).^[12][1][13] That verb was earlier gnōscō, from Proto-Italic *gnōskō and Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti, and is cognate with Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The document of 1394 addresses “any others to whom this our letter is shown or who have notice of it” (della noticia ouuerem), and one of 1457 has se non auja algũũa noticia “if there was no knowledge of it”.^[7] In these first records the word means “knowledge, awareness”; the glossary of a Galician notary's register of 1457 points out that this sense, closer to the Latin, is the usual one in the Middle Ages, before the modern sense “information”.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Bluteau (1712–1728) still defines the word as knowledge, or a thing that comes to be known, and sorts the kinds of knowledge into certain, doubtful and so on.^[14] Morais (1789) gives “information, knowledge”, then “learning, erudition”, and finally “news” (nova).^[6] The original Caldas Aulete adds “note, record”, “a short account” and “memory”, senses which the modern dictionaries keep.^[15][16]

The sense now most common, a report of current events published in a newspaper or broadcast on radio and television, is the journalistic sense that Houaiss, Aurélio and the DLP all list.^[2][16][17] Derivatives followed: noticiar “to report” in 1644, noticioso in 1660 and noticiário “news section” in 1881.^[18][19][20]

Timeline

• 1242–1252 – the inherited form nodiça in a Galician text.^[7]
• 1394 – noticia in a Portuguese document.^[7]
• c. 1430 – noticia in the Horto do Esposo (witness 1390–1437).^[21]
• 1457 – notiçias in a notary's register from Rianxo, Galicia.^[3]
• 1569 – Cardoso's dictionary renders noticia by Latin notitia.^[4]
• 1644 – first record of the verb noticiar.^[18]
• 1712–1728 – Bluteau defines the word as “knowledge”.^[14]
• 1789 – Morais adds the sense “news”.^[6]
• 1881 – first record of noticiário.^[20]

Meanings

Noun

1. news, information about a recent event or change: Trouxe-nos uma notícia que ninguém esperava.^[2][16][1]
2. Word of someone's whereabouts or condition: Há meses que não temos notícias do tio.^[2][15]
3. memory, recollection.^[2][16]
4. A note, record; now rare in this sense.^[2][16][17]
5. A short written account of a subject; a historical note or brief biography.^[2][16]
6. (journalism) A news report published in the press or broadcast on radio, television or the internet.^[2][17][22]

Word family

• noticiar
• noticiário
• noticioso

Related words

• Latin nōtitia
• Galician noticia

Usage notes

The phrase ser notícia means “to be news, to be in the public eye”.^[16][22]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. notícia
3. ^ a b c d 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. notiçia
4. ^ a b Cardoso, Jerónimo (1569–1570), Dictionarium ex lusitanico in latinum sermonem, Lisboa: João Álvares (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. noticia
5. ^ Barbosa, Agostinho (1611), Dictionarium lusitanicolatinum, Braga: Fructuoso Lourenço de Basto (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. noticia
6. ^ a b c 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. 2, 119
7. ^ a b c d 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. noticia
8. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. notícia
9. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. notitia
10. ^ Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. noticia
11. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. notice
12. ^ 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 Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. notîcia
15. ^ a b 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. notícia
16. ^ a b c d e f g Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. notícia
17. ^ a b c 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. notícia
18. ^ a b Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. noticiar
19. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. noticioso
20. ^ a b Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. noticiário
21. ^ Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, CTA – Corpus de Textos Antigos, https://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cta, p. s.v. noticia
22. ^ a b Porto Editora (2013), Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, Porto: Porto Editora, p. 6560