abordare

Forms

abordare f (plural abordări)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian aborda + -re, the long infinitive of the verb, used as a noun for its action.^[1][2][3][4] The verb aborda comes from French aborder, recorded in Romanian from about 1832.^[5][6] The French verb is built on bord (“side, edge”), a Germanic word.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 has abordare as the action of approaching the shore and landing.^[7] Costinescu's vocabulary of 1870 adds the figurative sense of approaching a person or a subject.^[8]

Semantic evolution

The noun followed its verb from the language of ships to that of discussion.^[9][4] In 1871 Laurian and Massim's glossary of foreign words listed abordare as a French word that Romanian should not admit.^[10] The DLRLC of the 1950s put the study or treatment of a subject first, before the berthing of a ship and the boarding of an enemy vessel.^[9] Today the abstract sense, an approach to a problem or a person, is the common one.^[1][4]

Timeline

• c. 1832 – the verb aborda.^[5]
• 1862 – abordare, the approach of a ship to the shore, in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[7]
• 1870 – figurative use for approaching a person or a subject.^[8]
• 1871 – listed by Laurian and Massim among foreign words.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of approaching a subject: the beginning of a discussion or of the study of a problem, an approach.^[4][1][9]
2. Approaching a person in order to speak to them.^[4]
3. The berthing of a ship at the shore for landing.^[4][11]
4. The boarding or ramming of another ship.^[4][9]

Related words

• abordaj
• abordabil
• acosta

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ Wikționar (Romanian Wiktionary), ro.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. abordare
3. ^ DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic
4. ^ 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, 3
5. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. aborda
6. ^ 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. aborda
7. ^ a b Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 3
8. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 5
9. ^ a b c d Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 4
10. ^ a b Laurian, A. T.; Massim, I. C. (1871), Glossariu care coprinde vorbele d'in limba romana straine prin originea sau form'a loru, cumu si celle de origine indouiosa, Bucuresci: Noua Typographia a Laboratoriloru Romani
11. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România