arinos

Forms

arinos m or n (feminine singular arinoasă, masculine plural arinoși, feminine/neuter plural arinoase)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin arēnōsus (“sandy”), according to the DA, Candrea and Densusianu, and MDA2.^[2][3][4] Tiktin and the DLRM derive it instead from Romanian arină + -os, from the old word for “sand”, and DELR and Wiktionary give both explanations.^[5][6][7][1]

It survives south of the Danube: Aromanian arinos “sandy”, which Papahagi also takes from the Latin adjective.^[8][9][10] The Romance cognates are Italian renoso, Sardinian arenosu, Occitan arenos, Catalan arenos, Spanish arenoso and Portuguese areoso.^[2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is a place name in a document of 1515.^[5] DELR's first record of the adjective is the Istorii of 1668–1670, with the sense “sandy”.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The word kept its Latin sense “sandy”, also “mixed with or covered in sand”.^[4][2] The Povățuire cătră economia de câmp, a handbook for the Romanian schools of Hungary, says that mulberry trees grow „în loc cam arinos” “in rather sandy ground”.^[2][4] The Lexicon de la Buda of 1825 gives the Latin, Hungarian and German equivalents, and Barcianu's dictionary of 1886 still has it.^[11][12] MDA2 records a regional figurative sense “vicious”.^[4] The usual word for “sandy” became nisipos, and the DLRM labels arinos obsolete.^[6][4]

Timeline

• 1515 – a place name in a document, the first record.^[5]
• 1668–1670 – arinos “sandy” in the Istorii.^[7]
• 1825 – arinosu in the Lexicon de la Buda.^[11]
• 1886 – arinos “sandy” in Barcianu's dictionary.^[12]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (obsolete) sandy, made of or containing sand.^[4][2][1]
2. (obsolete) Covered with sand.^[4]
3. (regional, figurative) vicious.^[4]

Related words

• arină
• nisipos

References

1. ^ a b c d 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. arinos
3. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
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, 98
5. ^ 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. arinos
6. ^ a b Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 42
7. ^ a b c 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. arină
8. ^ Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 141
9. ^ Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 38
10. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 120
11. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 31
12. ^ a b Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 35