bandaj

Forms

bandaj n (plural bandaje)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French bandage.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The DA explains the French word as a derivative of bander (“to bind with bands”);^[1] Wiktionary analyses it as bande (“band, strip”) with the suffix -age.^[6][1] DELR places it in the family of bandă “band”.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is from 1842, in Cuciuran, and Tiktin also dates the word to 1842.^[2][5] MDA2 cites it first from Duiliu Zamfirescu's war novel În război (1902).^[3]

Semantic evolution

An older variant was bandagiu.^[2][3] The first sense is the strip of cloth or gauze that holds a dressing or keeps an injured part still; the DA also records the act of binding and the whole set of bands on a wound.^[6][4] From there it named the elastic steel band of a truss for hernias and the strips boxers wind round their fists, and in engineering the steel or rubber tyre fitted on a wheel rim and the wire rings that hold the windings of an electric rotor.^[4][7] Prisoners' slang uses it for a paper strip used to smoke cigarette ends.^[8]

Timeline

• 1842 – the first record, in Cuciuran.^[2][5]
• 1852 – bandagist, later bandajist “maker of bandages”, in Stamati.^[2]
• 1888 – the verb bandaja “to bandage”, in the journal Transilvania.^[2]
• 1902 – in Duiliu Zamfirescu's În război.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A bandage: a strip of cloth or gauze that fixes and protects a dressing or keeps an injured part of the body still.^[4][3]
2. A truss for a hernia; a boxer's hand wrap worn under the gloves.^[4]
3. (technology) A steel or rubber tyre fitted on the rim of a vehicle's wheel; wire rings that hold the windings of an electric rotor.^[4][9]

Word family

• bandaja

Related words

• bandă
• pansament

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g 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. bandaj
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 163
4. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 88
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. bandaj
6. ^ a b 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. bandaj
7. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. bandaj
8. ^ Volceanov, George (2007), Dicționar de argou al limbii române, București: Niculescu, p. s.v. bandaj
9. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. bandaj