considerare

Forms

considerare f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian considera + -re, the long infinitive of the verb used as a noun.^[2][3][4][1] The verb is from French considérer, itself from Latin cōnsīderō (“to observe, examine”).^[5] DELR explains the Latin verb either as first “to watch the stars”, from sīdus (“star, constellation”), or, after de Vaan, from an older sense “target” of that noun.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 glosses it with French words for consideration, attention, esteem and examination.^[6] MDA2 takes its first record from Maiorescu's Critice.^[2] The DA lists it among the abstract nouns of considera, whose first record DELR dates to 1818.^[7][5]

Semantic evolution

Costinescu (1870) explains it through the verb: to look at, to take heed of, to examine, to esteem.^[8] Barcianu (1886) gives German equivalents meaning “taking into consideration, heeding”.^[9] Modern dictionaries give “examination, study” and “consideration”, and DEX records the phrase a lua (or a avea) în considerare “to take into account”.^[4][10] considerație, borrowed from French in 1817, is its near-synonym.^[5][3]

Timeline

• 1862 – considerare in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[6]
• 1870 – in Costinescu's dictionary.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. examination, study of something.^[4][2][10]
2. consideration, regard: a lua în considerare “to take into account”.^[4][2]

Related words

• considerație

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 489
3. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. considerare
4. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 223
5. ^ a b c d 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. considera
6. ^ a b Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 149
7. ^ 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. considera
8. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 236
9. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 131
10. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 526