accede

Forms

accede (first-person singular present acced, third-person singular present accede, past participle acces, third-person subjunctive acceadă), 3rd conjugation^[1][2]

Etymology

It is a learned loan, borrowed from Latin accēdō (“to approach, reach”), with French accéder as a second model, as DELR gives it.^[3] DEX 2009 and MDA2 name French alone, the neologism dictionaries and NODEX both languages.^[2][4][5][6] The French verb is itself borrowed from Latin.^[1] The Latin verb is formed of ad- and cēdō (“to go, withdraw”).^[3]

DELR treats the verb in the family of the noun acces, with accesibil and accesiune, all borrowed from French and Latin in the 19th century.^[3] The computing verb accesa is a separate, recent borrowing from English access (1995).^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is in Iorgovici's Observații of 1799, with the sense “to reach something, above all a desired position”.^[3] MDA2 cites it only from DEX 1998.^[4]

Semantic evolution

Șăineanu's dictionary of 1929 gave the verb the sense “to consent, agree” (“I accede to your proposal”).^[7] NODEX still records it, but DEX 2009 and MDA2 give only “to have access, to reach”, which is the current bookish sense.^[6][2][4]

Timeline

• 1799 – accede in Iorgovici's Observații.^[3]
• 1929 – “to consent” in Șăineanu's dictionary.^[7]
• 1998 – recorded in DEX 1998, MDA2's first source.^[4]

Meanings

Verb

1. (bookish, intransitive) To have access to, to reach a place, a person or a position.^[2][4][1]
2. (dated) To consent, to agree to a proposal.^[6][7]

Related words

• acces
• accesibil
• accesa

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 5
3. ^ a b c d e f 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. acces
4. ^ 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, 6
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. accede
6. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. accede
7. ^ a b c Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 4