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Etymology and origin of the Romanian word împutăciune

Confidence
Established
Formation
Derivation
First attested
1561 Coresi's Tetraevanghel More words from the 16th century
Ultimate origin
Latin imputō

Forms

împutăciune f (plural împutăciuni)[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian împuta (“to reproach”) + -ciune, on an old verb.[2][3][4][1] MDA2 and Scriban also compare Latin imputātiō (“charge, account”).[2][5] The verb is imputō (“to charge to someone”), which the neologism imputa, from French, has replaced.[4][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is Coresi's Tetraevanghel of 1561, at Luke 1:25, Elizabeth's reproach among men.[3] The Palia of Orăștie (1582), MDA2's first record, has it in Rachel's words: „D-zeu au luat de pre mine împutăciunea” “God has taken away my reproach” (Genesis 30:23).[2][3]

Semantic evolution

The sense “reproach, rebuke” is the old one.[3][2] From it came “quarrel, disagreement”, as in Bălcescu's account of Michael the Brave and the leaders of the Transylvanian troops.[3][7] The Lexicon de la Buda (1825) glosses it with Latin imputatio.[8] The word is now obsolete.[2][7]

Timeline

  • 1561 – Coresi's Tetraevanghel, Luke 1:25.[3]
  • 1582 – the Palia of Orăștie, Genesis 30:23.[2][3]
  • 1589 – Coresi's Psalter.[9]
  • 1688 – the Bucharest Bible.[10]
  • 1825 – glossed “imputatio” in the Lexicon de la Buda.[8]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (obsolete) reproach, rebuke, reprimand.[2][7][1]
  2. (obsolete) quarrel, disagreement.[2][5][1]
  • imputație
  • imputa

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ 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, 1198
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. împutăciune
  4. ^ a b 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. imputa
  5. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 675
  6. ^ Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. împuta
  7. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 582
  8. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 285
  9. ^ Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 43:15
  10. ^ Biblia, adecă Dumnezeiasca Scriptură a ceii vechi și a ceii noao leage, București, 1688 (ed. 1988, tricentennial edition), p. Sir 42:19
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“Împutăciune.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/%C3%AEmput%C4%83ciune. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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