audiere

Forms

audiere f (plural audieri)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of audia (“to hear (a witness), to attend (a course)”), formed from Romanian audia + -re.^[1][2][3][4] DEX and MDA2 take the verb back from audiență, auditor and audiție;^[5][6] the dictionaries of neologisms connect it with audiō (“to hear”).^[4][7] DELR also gives both views for the verb.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 takes its first record from the manuscript files of the Academy dictionary, without a date.^[3] The noun is defined in the DLRLC of 1955–1957, as the taking of a witness's testimony and the attending of a course of lectures.^[9]

Semantic evolution

The noun follows the senses of the verb, recorded from 1930.^[8] The legal sense, the hearing of a witness in a trial, is the one the dictionaries name first.^[4][3] MDA2 adds the attending of lectures and of classes, and listening to radio broadcasts and to recordings.^[3]

Timeline

• 1930 – the verb audia, in Camil Petrescu.^[8]
• 1955–1957 – audiere defined in the DLRLC.^[9]
• 1958 – listed in the DLRM.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of hearing; in law, a hearing: the taking of a witness's testimony.^[5][3][4][1]
2. Attendance at a lecture or conference, or at the classes of a school or university.^[3][9]
3. Listening to radio broadcasts or to recordings.^[3]

Related words

• audia
• audiență
• auditor
• audiție

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic
3. ^ 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
4. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
5. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 73
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 127
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
8. ^ 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. audiență
9. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 165
10. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 54