cip

Forms

cip n (plural cipuri)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English chip, a word whose proper sense is “small piece, splinter”.^[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR dates the word to 1976.^[2] Dimitrescu quotes a newspaper report of 28 October 1976 on telecommunications, in which the English plural «chips» is given beside a Romanian rendering, pastile cu circuite integrate “integrated-circuit tablets”.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept the electronic sense it was borrowed with: a small piece of semiconductor material carrying integrated circuits.^[2][3] Dimitrescu files it under cybernetics.^[4]

Timeline

• 1976 – first record, in a newspaper report on telecommunications.^[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. (electronics) A chip: a small piece of semiconductor material that carries one or more integrated circuits.^[3][1]

Usage notes

DELR has a separate interjection cip imitating the sound of water struck with the hands or with oars, recorded from 1930 and of onomatopoeic origin, with the derivatives cipa and cipcii “to splash”.^[2] MDA2 dates it to 1908.^[5] MDN also lists a rare cip “small funerary or votive stele”, from French cippe and Latin cippus.^[6]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e 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. cip
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 187
4. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE)
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 412
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual