comunicare

Forms

comunicare f (plural comunicări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of comunica, formed from Romanian comunica + -re.^[2][1][3][4] DELR adds that its senses follow French communication.^[2]

The verb is a learned loan with two models, Latin commūnicō (“to share with someone, impart”) (from commūnis (“common”)) and French communiquer.^[5][6] DELR dates the verb to 1799 and Tiktin to 1787.^[5][6] Its inherited doublet is cumineca “to give or take communion”.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR dates the noun to 1829.^[2] Besides “communication, notice”, DELR and MDA2 record an obsolete church sense, “communion”, the sense of the inherited cuminecare.^[2][4] Tiktin's and MDA2's first record is Stamati's dictionary of technical and difficult words of 1851.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 glosses it with French “communication, information, relation, propagation”.^[7] Tiktin gives “notice”, “connection” and “social intercourse”.^[3] Later dictionaries add a learned sense, a short paper presented to a meeting of specialists, and the phrase mijloace de comunicare în masă “mass media”.^[8][4] The church sense “communion” is now obsolete.^[4]

Timeline

• 1829 – comunicare “communication, notice”, the first record of the noun.^[2]
• 1851 – in Stamati's dictionary of technical and difficult words.^[3][4]
• 1862 – Pontbriant glosses it with French “communication, information”.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of communicating and its result.^[9][10]
2. A notice, a piece of news or information; a report.^[9][4]
3. contact, relation, connection: Telefonul e principalul nostru mijloc de comunicare.^[9][8]
4. A short paper presenting a personal contribution, read before a group of specialists.^[9][11]
5. (obsolete, church) Communion.^[4][2]

Word family

• comunica

Related words

• cumineca
• comun
• Latin commūnicō

Usage notes

Mijloace de comunicare în masă is the set phrase for the mass media: post, telephone, radio, television and the press.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f 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. comunicáre
3. ^ 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. comunicáre
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 477
5. ^ a b 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. comunicá
6. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. comunicá
7. ^ a b Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 147
8. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 510
9. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 215
10. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. comunicare
11. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. comunicare