anunța

Forms

anunța (third-person singular present anunță, past participle anunțat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is a neologism, borrowed from French annoncer (“to announce”), also borrowed from Latin annūntiō (“to announce”), as DEX, the neologism dictionaries and Wiktionary give it.^[2][3][4][1] DELR names the learned Latin verb first, with Italian annunziare and the French verb beside it, and Tiktin names the French and Italian verbs.^[5][6] MDA2 gives French alone, and the DA calls the word a neologism after French.^[7][8] The Latin verb is formed on nūntiō (“to announce”), from nūntius (“messenger; message”).^[5]

The first form recorded is anunția, closer to the Latin;^[5] DELR also lists the older variants anonsa, anonsarisi (1834) and anonța.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR and Tiktin date the first record to 1794, in the form anunția in a calendar printed at Vienna, with the sense “to make known”.^[5][6] Negulici's dictionary of neologisms of 1848 has annunțiare or annunțare “to let know, to make known”.^[9] MDA2's first record is from Constantin Negruzzi's works.^[7]

Semantic evolution

From the general sense “to make known”, the verb took the special sense of announcing a visitor, saying his name aloud as he arrives: the DA quotes Negruzzi for it.^[8][2] With a thing as subject it means to foretell, to be a sign of something to come, and the reflexive a se anunța is said of what promises to turn out well or badly.^[10][11][12]

The noun anunț “announcement, notice” is recorded from 1851;^[5] DELR derives it from French annonce, adapted after the verb, and its older variants anunciu and anunțiu from Italian annuncio and Latin.^[5] anunțător “announcer” goes back to 1840, as anunciator, and appears as anunțător in 1844.^[5]

Timeline

• 1794 – anunția in a calendar printed at Vienna, the first record.^[5][6]
• 1834 – the variant anonsarisi.^[5]
• 1840 – anunciator “announcer”, later anunțător.^[5]
• 1848 – annunțiare in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[9]
• 1851 – the noun anunț.^[5]
• 1949 – the technical noun anunciator, an alarm device, from French.^[5]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To announce, make known, inform.^[2][7][1]
2. (transitive) To announce a visitor, saying his name aloud.^[2][7]
3. (transitive) To be a sign of something to come, herald;^[12][11] (reflexive) to promise to turn out in a certain way.^[12][11]

Word family

• anunț
• anunțător

Related words

• Latin annūntiō

References

1. ^ a b c 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. 52
3. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. anunța
4. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. anunța
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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. anunța
6. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. anunța
7. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 76
8. ^ a b Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. anunța
9. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. annunțiare
10. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 28
11. ^ a b c Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. anunța
12. ^ 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. anunța