aprobare

Forms

aprobare f (plural aprobări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of aproba, formed from Romanian aproba + -re and used as an abstract noun.^[2][3][4][1] DELR derives the verb from Italian approbare and the learned Latin approbō (“to approve”), a compound of ad- and probō (“to test; to find good”), itself from probus (“good”).^[5] MDA2 and DEX name only the Latin verb.^[4][6] An older variant of the verb, aprobălui, came from Hungarian aprobál.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record of the noun to 1834, with the German glosses “approval, sanction”.^[3] MDA2 gives a later first record, Antonescu's dictionary of 1862.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The noun names the act of agreeing to something, and in a narrower sense the official, favourable answer to a request or a proposal.^[4][6] From the second sense it came to name the document by which something is approved.^[7][6] Șăineanu also recorded a sense “favourable judgement of someone's merits”.^[8] Old synonyms were aprobație, aprobațiune and aprobăluire.^[4][2]

Timeline

• 1718–1739 – the verb, as aprobălui, in a document published by Papacostea.^[5]
• 1794 – the verb in the form aprobá, in the Vienna calendar.^[5]
• 1834 – aprobare, the first record of the noun.^[3]
• 1862 – the noun in Antonescu's dictionary.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. approval, consent: the act of agreeing to something.^[6][4][1]
2. An official, favourable answer to a request; the document granting permission.^[6][4][9]

Related words

• aproba
• Latin approbō

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. aprobare
3. ^ 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. aprobáre
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 83
5. ^ a b c d 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. aproba
6. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 56
7. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 37
8. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 31
9. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. aprobare