conformitate

Forms

conformitate f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French conformité,^{[2][3][4][5][1]} which French took from Latin cōnfōrmitās.^[2][1] Scriban derives it from the Latin word directly.^[6] Within Romanian it matches conform with the suffix -itate.^[1]

The Latin noun is made from cōnfōrmis (“of the same shape”),^[1] itself formed of con- and fōrma (“form”).^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to about 1830, and DELR to about 1832, in I. Golescu's Condica, with the sense “agreement, concordance”.^[5][2] MDA2's first record is in the Uricariul, before 1855.^[4]

Semantic evolution

Negulici in 1848 defined it as a relation or likeness between two things, as in conformitate de caractere “likeness of character”.^[7] Costinescu added a religious use, conformitate cu voința lui Dumnezeu “submission to God's will”.^[8] Laurian and Massim's examples include the agreement of a copy with its original.^[9]

From that use came the official formula pentru conformitate “certified true copy”, which Tiktin records, and the phrase în conformitate cu “in accordance with”.^[5][3] The negative neconformitate was formed after French non-conformité and is recorded from Eminescu in 1879.^[2]

Timeline

• c. 1830 – first record.^[5]
• c. 1832 – I. Golescu's Condica, “agreement”.^[2]
• 1848 – Negulici, a relation or likeness between two things.^[7]
• before 1855 – the Uricariul.^[4]
• 1870 – Costinescu, “conformity to God's will”.^[8]
• 1879 – neconformitate in Eminescu.^[2]

Meanings

Noun

1. The relation between two things that are conform to each other; agreement, potrivire, concordanță.^[3][4]
2. în conformitate cu “in accordance with”: Am procedat în conformitate cu regulamentul.^[3][4]
3. pentru conformitate, the formula that certifies that a copy agrees with the original document.^[3][4]

Word family

• neconformitate

Related words

• conform
• conformism
• formă

References

1. ^ a b c d e f 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. conform
3. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 220
4. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 485
5. ^ 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. conformitate
6. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 332
7. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. conformitate
8. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 231
9. ^ Laurian, A. T.; Massim, I. C. (1871–1876), Dictionariulu limbei romane, 2 vols., Bucuresci: Noua Typographia a Laboratoriloru Romani, p. 1