buletin

Forms

buletin n (plural buletine)^[1] The first records of 1814 have a feminine bulitină beside bulitin; the form buletin is recorded from 1829.^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French bulletin, which also came in through German Bulletin.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} Tiktin and the DA give instead Italian bulletino.^[6][7] The French word is probably formed on Old French bullette (“seal; certificate”), a diminutive of bulle (“seal”); the Italian word helped it spread in the 16th century.^[8][2] The chain goes back to Latin bulla (“bubble”), which in Medieval Latin came to mean a seal or stamp and then a stamped document.^[2][9]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first records are of 1814, as bulitină and bulitin, with the sense “short communiqué, report”.^[2] Tiktin also dates it to 1814.^[6]

Semantic evolution

In the 19th century it was above all an official report or a sheet that published daily news of public interest; the DA quotes the Uricariul on the need to draw up a buletin for the Council.^[10][7][11] It then named official periodicals, such as the bulletin of the Ministry of Public Instruction and the collection of laws, Buletinul legilor.^[7][5] By the early 20th century it also meant the ballot paper, buletin de vot, a medical bulletin on the health of a public figure, and a school report.^[12][13][5]

The sense “identity card”, buletin de identitate, is the first sense of the DLRLC in 1955 and is now the commonest everyday use.^[14][3]

Timeline

• 1814 – bulitină and bulitin “report”, the first records.^[2][6]
• 1829 – the form buletin.^[2]
• 1870 – Costinescu: a sheet publishing daily news.^[10]
• 1929 – Șăineanu: a ballot paper;^[12] Buletinul legilor.^[12]
• 1955 – the DLRLC: an identity card.^[14]

Meanings

Noun

1. A short official communiqué, report or notice with current news of public interest: buletin de știri, buletin meteorologic.^[3]
2. A certificate issued by an authority: buletin de analize medicale “medical test results”.^[3]
3. The name of a periodical with short reports, studies and specialist news.^[3][15]
4. An identity card, in full buletin de identitate: Și-a pierdut buletinul în tren.^[3][1]
5. buletin de vot: a ballot paper with the names of the candidates and the party symbols.^[3]

Related words

• bulă

References

1. ^ a b c 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. buletin
3. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 124
4. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. buletin
5. ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 205
6. ^ 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. buletin
7. ^ a b c 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. buletin
8. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
9. ^ Graur, Alexandru (1980), Cuvinte înrudite, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. no. 26
10. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 130
11. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 70
12. ^ a b c Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 83
13. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. buletin
14. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 293
15. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 257