deșidera

Forms

deșidera (third-person singular present deșideră, past participle deșiderat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, to desire”).^{[2][3][4][5][6][1]} DELR notes that the Latin verb was probably formed, like cōnsīderō, on sīdus (“star, constellation”), though how the sense developed is unclear.^[2] The Latin verb also lives on in Italian desiderare, French désirer and Occitan dezirar.^[7] Candrea and Densusianu and Wiktionary compare Albanian dëshiroj.^[6][1]

The Psaltirea Scheiană also has a form deșira.^[6][2] Candrea and Densusianu explain it from Vulgar Latin *dēsīdrō, with the regular reduction of /dr/ before the stress, and take the longer form to have been remade on the present ⟨deșider⟩.^[6] DELR thinks the shorter form may be a scribal error.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR's first record is the Codex Bratul of 1559–1560.^[2] The Psaltirea Scheiană uses it often: „Adecă deșideraiu porâncitele tale” “Behold, I longed for your commandments”.^[4][3] MDA2 takes its first record from this psalter.^[5] The sense has always been “to desire, to long for”.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The word belonged to the 16th-century translations and did not outlive them: the dictionaries cite it only from the Psaltirea Scheiană and mark it obsolete.^[3][4][8] The other psalters use dori in the same verses.^[3] The noun deșiderat “desire” occurs in the same psalter.^[2][9]

Timeline

• 1559–1560 – the Codex Bratul, the first record.^[2]
• c. 1573–1578 – deșideră in the Psaltirea Scheiană.^[10][5]
• 1573–1583 – the noun deșiderat “desire” in the Psaltirea Scheiană.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To desire strongly, to long for.^[3][5][2]

Word family

• deșiderat

Related words

• Latin dēsīderō
• Albanian dëshiroj

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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. deșidera
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. deșidera
4. ^ 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. deșidera
5. ^ 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, 680
6. ^ a b c d Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
7. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 2593
8. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. deșidera
9. ^ Candrea, I.-A. (1916), Psaltirea Scheiană comparată cu celelalte psaltiri din sec. XVI și XVII traduse din slavonește, vol. II: Glosarele, București: Socec, p. 281
10. ^ Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 83:1