înmatriculare

Forms

înmatriculare f (plural înmatriculări)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian înmatricula + -re, the long infinitive of the verb.^[2][3][4][1] The verb is from French immatriculer, which DEX names beside a Latin source.^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Damé's dictionary (1893) has it as the action of matriculating.^[5] MDA2's first record is in a law collection of 1949, in the sense of entering someone in a register.^[3]

Semantic evolution

MDA2 lists four uses: the enrolment of children at a school, the giving of a registration number, the entry of recruits in the roll of a military unit, and the registration of vehicles, which receive a număr de înmatriculare before they may be driven.^[3] It records the old synonym înmatriculație and the variant inmatriculare.^[3]

Timeline

• 1893 – Damé, with the plural înmatriculări.^[5]
• 1949 – a law collection, MDA2's first record.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of enrolling or being enrolled; entry in a register.^[2]
2. enrolment of children at a school; entry of recruits in the roll of a military unit.^[3]
3. registration of a vehicle, which receives a number so that it may be driven: număr de înmatriculare “registration number”.^[3]

Related words

• matricolă
• matricula

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 550
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1240
4. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. înmatriculare
5. ^ a b Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. 1