asasinare

Forms

asasinare f (plural asasinări)^[1]

Etymology

It is from Romanian asasina + -re, the long infinitive of the verb used as a verbal noun.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The DA labels it a Gallicism, the equivalent of French assassinat.^[4]

The verb, recorded from 1840, is from French assassiner; the DA also compares Italian assassinare.^[6][7][4] The French verb is formed on assassin, which DELR traces to assassino, first the name of a member of a Muslim sect in Syria that killed Christian leaders during the Crusades, from the Arabic name of the sect, meaning “hashish smokers”.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DA take the first record from volume XIV of Codrescu's Uricariul, a collection of Moldavian documents: „Asasinarea lui aduce murmure în țară” “his assassination brings murmurs across the country”.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

The DA defines it as a treacherous killing, thought of as an action, and MDA2 as killing with premeditation.^[4][2] Modern dictionaries define it simply as the act of assassinating, with omor and ucidere as synonyms.^[3][8][9]

Timeline

• 1801 – the noun asasin “assassin”.^[6]
• 1840 – the verb asasina.^[6][7]
• 1847 – asasinat “murder”, from French.^[6]
• 1859 – asasinator “assassin”.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. assassination: the act of assassinating; premeditated murder.^[3][2][5][1]

Related words

• asasin
• asasinat
• French assassiner

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 107
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 66
4. ^ 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. asasinare
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ a b c d e f 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. asasin
7. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. asasina
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 136
9. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 46