audiție

Forms

audiție f (plural audiții)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French audition, also taken as borrowed from Latin audītiō (“hearing, listening”).^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} Tiktin, the DA and Wiktionary name French alone;^[1] DELR says the French word is itself borrowed from Latin.^[8][9][1][2] The Latin noun is formed from audiō (“to hear”) with the suffix -tiō.^[10]

An older variant was audițiune.^[2][8][4] The verb audia is a back-formation from audiență, auditor and this noun, according to DEX, cited by DELR.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin and DELR date the first record to 1840, in the dictionary of Poenaru, Aaron and Hill, with the sense “hearing”.^[8][2] MDA2's first record is later, Brătescu-Voinești's În lumea dreptății (1926), with the musical sense: „orchestră cu care organizase audiții muzicale la clubul militar” “an orchestra with which he had put on musical auditions at the military club”.^[4][9]

Semantic evolution

The DA labels the word a Gallicism and gives two senses: hearing, with the psychological term audiție colorată “coloured hearing”, the ability of some people to see colours when they hear sounds, and a audiție muzicală, a concert on a smaller scale for a restricted circle of listeners.^[9] The musical sense became the main one; the phrase în primă audiție means performed in public for the first time.^[3][4]

In the 1950s it also named the collective listening to radio news bulletins organised in village cultural centres.^[11] Technical senses followed: the reception of audio signals in radio, and the acoustic quality of a room.^[3][2] DELR also records the sense of a selection test for a part in a film, a television programme or a show.^[2]

Timeline

• 1840 – first record, in Poenaru, Aaron and Hill's dictionary, “hearing”.^[8][2]
• 1926 – audiții muzicale “musical auditions” in Brătescu-Voinești.^[4][9]
• 1930 – the verb audia in Camil Petrescu.^[2]
• 1952 – collective listening to radio bulletins, in Contemporanul.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. The listening to music; a musical event on a smaller scale than a concert;^[6] în primă audiție “performed in public for the first time”.^[3][4]
2. The identification of sounds through the sense of hearing.^[3][6]
3. (radio) The reception of audio signals.^[3][4]
4. An audition: a selection test for taking part in a film, a television programme or a show.^[2][1]

Related words

• audia
• audiență
• auditor
• auditoriu
• Latin audītiō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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. audiență
3. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 74
4. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 128
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria
8. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. audiție
9. ^ a b c d 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. audiție
10. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
11. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 165