accesa

Forms

accesa (third-person singular present accesează, past participle accesat), 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English access (“to access”), an English verb made from the noun, which came from French accès and Medieval Latin accessus.^[2][3][1][4] NODEX instead derives it from the Romanian noun acces.^[5] It belongs to computing, which brought it into Romanian in the 1990s.^[2][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is the weekly Dilema of 1995 (no. 134, p. 14), quoted by Dimitrescu: „poți accesa în bănci de date mai speciale” “you can access more specialised data banks”.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

The first uses were about databases, networks and the Internet: in 1997 România liberă wrote that the Internet was accessed by 40 million people.^[6] From computing it spread to opening a program or a web page, to using a function of a telephone or television set, and, in finance, to obtaining funds, as in a accesa fonduri europene.^[2][6] DELR also records rarer uses “to reach, to get into” and “to use a treatment”.^[2]

Timeline

• 1995 – accesa in the weekly Dilema.^[2][6]
• 1997 – accesat of the Internet in România liberă.^[6]

Meanings

Verb

1. (computing) To access data or information; to enter a network or a program, to open a web page.^[3][2][1]
2. (computing) To fetch an instruction from memory in order to execute it.^[4]
3. To make functional; to use a function of an electronic device.^[3][2]
4. (finance) To obtain funding, to get access to funds.^[2][6]

Related words

• acces
• accesibil

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 6
4. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. accesa
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. accesa
6. ^ a b c d e f g Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. accesá