creație

Forms

creație f (plural creații)^[1] An older variant is creațiune.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French création, with Latin creātiō as a second model: DEX, MDA2 and DELR give both sources for this 19th-century neologism.^[3][4][2][1] Tiktin names only the French model.^[5]

The Latin noun is formed from creō (“to create, make”) with the suffix -tiō^[1] and meant “begetting” and “the election of an official”.^[6][7] The verb Romanian crea came from the same Latin and French sources.^[3] Wiktionary notes that Crăciun “Christmas” may be an inherited doublet.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is Săulescu's Romanian grammar of 1833, with the senses “the act of creating and its result” and “all the beings and things created by God”.^[3][5] Negulici's dictionary of neologisms (1848) defines it as God's work, the making of the world, and also as the act of creating.^[8]

Semantic evolution

The religious sense, the Creation of the world, came first.^[3][8] The sense of artistic or scientific work, and of the work itself, became the main one: Tiktin has creație poetică “poetic creation”.^[5][2] In the theatre and the cinema the word names an original interpretation of a role.^[9][2] MDA2 adds the new fashions of the great designers and casă de creație, a retreat of an artists' union.^[4]

Timeline

• 1833 – first record, in Săulescu's grammar.^[3][5]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[8]
• 1949 – pseudocreație “worthless creation”.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of creating works of art or science;^[2][4] (concrete) the product of creative work, a created work.^[2][4]
2. A masterly interpretation of a role in a play or a film.^[2][10]
3. (religion) The act by which God made the universe out of nothing; the universe as God's work, the creation.^[2][4]
4. (specifically) The new fashions of the great designers.^[4]

Word family

• pseudocreație

Related words

• crea
• creator
• creatură
• Latin creātiō

Usage notes

Casă de creație is a holiday house of a union of artists or writers, where they can work.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 247
3. ^ 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. crea
4. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 542
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. creáție
6. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
7. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
8. ^ a b c 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. 109
9. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 572
10. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. creație