apusat

Forms

apusat m or n (feminine singular apusată, masculine plural apusați, feminine/neuter plural apusate)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *appausatus, the source MDA2 and Wiktionary give.^[2][1] Scriban glosses the Latin form as “quiet, undisturbed” and explains it as a compound of the same kind as Latin repausatus, which gave Romanian răposat.^[3] He draws the sense from Vasile Bogrea, who discussed the word among his etymologies in the journal Dacoromania in 1922–1923.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is the glossary of Graiul nostru, the collection of folk texts edited by Candrea and others, where the word is explained as “tucked away, hidden” in the phrase trei sate “three villages”.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

The glossary sense “hidden, out of the way” and Scriban's “quiet, undisturbed” meet in Bogrea's reading of sate apusate as villages left in peace, untroubled by taxes.^[3][4] MDA2 labels the word old and regional, and Wiktionary calls it obsolete.^[2][1]

Timeline

• 1906–1908 – apusat “hidden” in the glossary of Graiul nostru.^[4][2]
• 1939 – Scriban records sate apusate “quiet villages” after Bogrea.^[3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (obsolete, regional) hidden, tucked away.^[2][4][1]
2. (obsolete, regional) Quiet, undisturbed, left in peace.^[3][1]

Related words

• răposat

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 86
3. ^ a b c d e Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 115
4. ^ a b c d Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov.; Speranția, Th. D. (1906–1908), Graiul nostru. Texte din toate părțile locuite de români, 2 vols., București: Socec, p. 197