înregistrare

Forms

înregistrare f (plural înregistrări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of the verb “to register, record”, used as a noun: from Romanian înregistra + -re.^[1][2][3][4] The verb is borrowed from French enregistrer.^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 has it as the act of registering or entering in a list, glossed by French enregistrement.^[5] Costinescu in 1870 describes the copying of a deed into a register, so that it can be kept and proved.^[6]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was administrative, and the dictionaries of the early 20th century add the tax paid for registering a deed and the office that kept the registers.^[7][8] Later senses follow the verb: noting a fact in writing, the tracing of a phenomenon by an instrument, and the recording of sound and images on a medium.^[9][2] MDA2 also records a figurative sense “memorizing” and an accounting sense.^[10]

Timeline

• 1862 – înregistrare “registration” in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[5]
• 1870 – the copying of a deed into a register, in Costinescu.^[6]
• 1929 – the registration tax and the registration office, in Șăineanu.^[7]
• 1955 – the recording of a phenomenon by an instrument, in the DLRLC.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of registering and its result; registration, entry in a register.^[2][10]
2. The noting of a fact or event in writing.^[10][9]
3. A recording: the fixing of sounds, images or data on a medium so they can be played back; the thing recorded.^[2][1]
4. (computing) A record, a unit of information.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 552
3. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
4. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
5. ^ a b Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich
6. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 597
7. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 329
8. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. înregistrare
9. ^ 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, 651
10. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1244