arestare

Forms

arestare f (plural arestări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of the verb “to arrest”, used as a verbal noun: from Romanian aresta + -re.^[2][3][4][1] An older Transylvanian synonym was arestuire, from the variant verb arestui.^[2][4]

The verb is recorded from 1736 as areștelui, and in its present form from 1794.^[5] DELR traces it to the learned New Latin arrestō, itself from Old French arester and Italian arrestare, and later also to arest “arrest” on the model of French arrêter; the forms in ⟨-elui⟩ come from Hungarian árestál.^[5] Tiktin calls its origin multiple.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 has arestare with French détention and arrêt;^[7][8][9] Costinescu (1870) and Antonescu (1875) follow.^[7][8][9] MDA2 gives only the Academy dictionary of 1913 as its first record.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The noun names the act of arresting someone and the state of the person held, as Șăineanu defines it.^[10] The legal phrase mandat de arestare “arrest warrant”, a written order of a judicial authority, is in CADE and in the DA.^[11][2][12] Alecsandri still wrote the Transylvanian synonym arestuire.^[2]

Timeline

• 1728 – arest “custody, lock-up”.^[5]
• 1736 – the verb as areștelui.^[5]
• 1794 – the verb in the form aresta.^[5]
• 1862 – arestare in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[7]
• 1913 – mandat de arestare in the Academy dictionary.^[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. arrest: the act of depriving an accused or convicted person of liberty; arestuire.^[3][4]
2. mandat de arestare: an arrest warrant, an official order to arrest a suspect.^[4][12]

Related words

• aresta
• arest
• arestat

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e 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. arestare
3. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 59
4. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 92
5. ^ a b c d e 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. aresta
6. ^ Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. aresta
7. ^ a b c Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 42
8. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 69
9. ^ a b Antonescu, G. M. (1875), Dictionariu romanu-francesu, Bucuresci: Typografia Curții (Lucrători Associați), p. 16
10. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 33
11. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. arestare
12. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 120