împrinde

Forms

împrinde (third-person singular present împrinde, past participle împrins, third-person subjunctive împrindă), 3rd conjugation^[1]

Etymology

The DA, Tiktin and DLRM see it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *imprendō, a compound of prendō (“to seize”); the DA compares Late Latin imprensibilis.^[2][3][4][1] MDA2 explains it instead as a formation from Romanian în- + prinde.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is the New Testament of 1648, where the ship runs aground: „Nemerind în locul a doao mări, să împrinse corabia” “falling into a place where two seas met, the ship ran aground” (Acts 27:41).^[2][3][5]

Semantic evolution

It is a Transylvanian word.^[2][6] Beside “to catch”, the reflexive meant “to get caught, hang on something”, as in the 1651 Psalter, and figuratively “to fall in love”.^[2][5]

Timeline

• 1648 – the New Testament, Acts 27:41.^[2][3]
• 1651 – „Împrinse-să piciorul lor” “their foot was caught” in a psalter.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive, regional) To catch.^[4][6][1]
2. (reflexive, regional) To get caught, to hang on something.^[2][6][1]
3. (reflexive, regional, figurative) To fall in love.^[2][5][1]

Related words

• prinde
• desprinde

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h 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. împrinde
3. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. împrinde
4. ^ a b Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 405
5. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1196
6. ^ a b c Bulgăr, Gheorghe; Constantinescu-Dobridor, Gheorghe (2002), Dicționar de arhaisme și regionalisme, 2 vols., București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. împrinde