declarație

Forms

declarație f (plural declarații)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French déclaration and Latin dēclārātiō.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} Tiktin gives the same two sources.^[6] The old forms dechiarație and dechiarațiune come from Italian dichiarazione.^[4] Wiktionary notes that the word can also be analysed as from Romanian declara + -ție.^[1]

The Latin noun is formed on dēclārō (“to make clear, declare”) with the suffix -tiō;^[7][8] Cicero used it for a disclosure or an open statement of intent.^[7][8] The French noun is a borrowing of the Latin word.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin records the word from 1703.^[6] MDA2's first record is a law code of 1788, where it means a legal notice to be added to every sentence of condemnation.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

In the official sense of a written or spoken statement by an authority the DLR has dated quotations from 1788 on: the form declărația in a calendar of 1794, a new declaration given to plenipotentiaries in 1813, and declarations of governments and ambassadors in the press from 1829.^[4] Negulici (1848) defined it as the act of making known or confessing, and of declaring one's love.^[10] The sense of an open statement of opinions or intentions spread in the 19th century, often in the longer form declarațiune used by Maiorescu, Odobescu and Caragiale.^[4] Declarație de amor and later declarație de dragoste “declaration of love” run from the 19th century to the present.^[4] Legal and administrative senses followed: a witness's statement and a return made by filling in an official form.^[2][11]

Timeline

• 1703 – first record.^[6]
• 1788 – declarația, a legal notice, in a law code.^[3][4]
• 1794 – the form declărația in a calendar.^[4]
• 1829 – the declarations of an ambassador in the press.^[4]
• 1848 – entry in Negulici's dictionary, with the sense “to declare one's love”.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. An open statement of convictions, opinions or feelings; what someone says on an occasion: declarație de dragoste “declaration of love”.^[2][12]
2. An official act that makes something known or confirms a measure; a notification.^[2][3]
3. A witness's testimony or deposition.^[2][3]
4. A written return made to an authority by filling in a form, and the form itself: declarație de impunere “tax return”.^[2][11]
5. A form of international treaty.^[2]
6. Declarație de război: a formal declaration of war made by one state to another before hostilities begin.^[2][3]

Related words

• declara
• Latin dēclārātiō

Usage notes

In grammar a verb de declarație is a verb of saying or thinking.^[2][3] The variant declarațiune is now old-fashioned.^[2][4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 278
3. ^ 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, 618
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. declarație
5. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. s.v. declarație
6. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. declarație
7. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. declaratio
8. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. s.v. declaratio
9. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. déclaration
10. ^ 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. 115
11. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 32
12. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. declarație