îngrijora

Forms

îngrijora (third-person singular present îngrijorează, past participle îngrijorat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian în- + grijă (“care, worry”) + -ura, with a prefix and a verbal suffix.^[2][2][3][1] Tiktin and NODEX derive it from the noun alone.^[4][5] The older form îngrijura shows the suffix unchanged.^[2][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the chronicle of Dionisie Eclesiarhul, which covers the years 1764 to 1815 and was written, by its title, in 1814; the verb has the older form there: „Văzând Mavrogheni că nemții s-au împuternicit ... s-au îngrijurat” “Mavrogheni, seeing that the Germans had grown strong, became worried”.^[4][3]

Semantic evolution

The verb has kept its meaning since then: transitively to cause someone worry or fear, reflexively to become worried.^[4][2] It is close in sense to a îngriji and a îngrija, which DEX lists as synonyms.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 1815 – s-au îngrijurat in Dionisie Eclesiarhul's chronicle.^[4]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause worry, unease or fear; to alarm: Tăcerea lui o îngrijora. “His silence worried her.”^[2][6]
2. (reflexive, a se îngrijora) To become anxious; to worry: Nu te îngrijora pentru mine.^[2][6]

Word family

• îngrijorare
• îngrijorat

Related words

• grijă
• îngriji

Usage notes

MDA2 dates the verb to 1764, the year in the title of Dionisie's chronicle;^[3][4] Tiktin dates the same passage to 1815.^[3][4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 549
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1236
4. ^ 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. îngrijora
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. îngrijora
6. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 641