îmbuiba

Forms

îmbuiba (third-person singular present îmbuibă, past participle îmbuibat), first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

Its origin is unknown.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} Ciorănescu finds none of the explanations so far satisfactory.^[3]

Densusianu derived it from Latin bubia, an uncertain gloss for “nipple”, through Vulgar Latin *imbubiō, but he later gave this up when he found the gloss was wrong.^[3][1] Giuglea took it from imbuō (“to wet, soak”), through a popular *imbuviō, with a first sense “to make soak up, fill with liquid” and then “to stuff with food”; the DAR followed him.^[3][6] In sense the verb matches buieci and buiac exactly, but the sounds are hard to reconcile; the DAR admits a crossing with Old Church Slavonic бѹити сѧ (buiti sę, “to live in luxury”).^[3][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1679, in Dosoftei.^[4] MDA2's first record is Nicolae Costin's chronicle, which Tiktin quotes: „s-au îngrășiat și s-au îmbuibat” “they grew fat and gorged themselves”.^[5][4]

Semantic evolution

The verb is used above all of the stomach or belly filled beyond measure with food.^[6][5] From this come “to give someone more than enough of everything” and “to sleep too much”.^[5] Of plants in a damp place it means to grow thick and multiply.^[3][5] Șăineanu adds a figurative “to grow arrogant”.^[7]

Timeline

• 1679 – in Dosoftei, the first record.^[4]
• 1921-1922 – Giuglea proposes a Latin origin through *imbuviare in Dacoromania II.^[6][3]

Meanings

Verb

1. (reflexive and transitive) To eat and drink, or to give to eat and drink, beyond measure; to gorge, to stuff: S-a îmbuibat cu prăjituri.^[2][1]
2. To fill (the stomach) to bursting.^[5][6]
3. (figurative) To heap on someone more than enough.^[5][8]
4. (reflexive, of plants) To grow thickly, to multiply.^[3][5]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 532
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. îmbuiba
4. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. îmbuiba
5. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1185
6. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. îmbuiba
7. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 306
8. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. îmbuiba