aniversare

Forms

aniversare f (plural aniversări)^[1] An older variant is aniversară, recorded in Eminescu.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Romanian aniversar (“returning on the same date”): the feminine ⟨aniversară⟩ of this adjective, used as a noun for ⟨zi aniversară⟩ “anniversary day”, was taken for a long infinitive in ⟨-are⟩ and given that ending.^[3][4][5] MDA2 and Marcu derive the noun from the verb aniversa instead, while DELR makes the verb a back-formation from the noun.^[6][7][5] Wiktionary and Tiktin treat the noun itself as a loan of the French word.^[1][2]

The adjective is from French anniversaire and Latin anniversārius (“returning every year”).^[5][3] The Latin adjective is formed on annus (“year”) and vertō (“to turn”).^[5][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the noun to 1829, with the sense of a yearly feast.^[2] DELR assigns that record to the adjective, used then also as a feminine noun, and dates the form aniversare to 1847, in Aricescu.^[5]

Semantic evolution

The word names both the celebration of a number of years since an event and the day on which it falls.^[3] Its commonest use is for a birthday, aniversarea zilei de naștere.^[9][1] The verb aniversa followed in 1911.^[5]

Timeline

• 1829 – the first record, as dated by Tiktin.^[2]
• 1829 – the adjective aniversar, also a feminine noun.^[5]
• 1847 – aniversare in Aricescu.^[5]
• 1911 – the verb aniversa.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. The celebration of a number of years since an event.^[3][6]
2. An anniversary, the day on which such an event is celebrated; in particular a birthday: Și-a serbat aniversarea cu prietenii.^[3][9][1]

Word family

• aniversa

Related words

• aniversar
• an

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. aniversare
3. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 44
4. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. s.v. aniversare
5. ^ 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. aniversare
6. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 67
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. aniversare
8. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. anniversarius
9. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. aniversare