demisiona

Forms

demisiona (third-person singular present demisionează, past participle demisionat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French démissionner (“to resign”).^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The French verb is formed on démission (“resignation”) with the verb ending -er.^[1]

DELR treats it in the family of demite, beside the noun demisie “resignation”, recorded from 1830, whose sources are the same French noun, itself the abstract noun of démettre, and German Demission; the noun's variants with ⟨di-⟩ follow Latin dīmissiō (“a sending away, release”).^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR and Tiktin date the first record to 1845, DELR from Albineț.^[2][5] It meant to give in one's resignation;^[2][5] Tiktin glosses it “to lay down an office”.^[2][5] MDA2 gives Polizu's dictionary of 1857 as its first record.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The sense has stayed close to the French one: to leave an office or post of one's own will, by a written request.^[3][6] The DLR quotes Maiorescu on a cabinet forced to resign, „Cabinetul Sturdza se vede silit să demisioneze” “the Sturdza cabinet finds itself forced to resign”, and the construction with din “from” a post.^[6] Antonescu's dictionary of 1875 spells it demissionà.^[7] MDA2 also records a rare transitive use, “to dismiss someone”.^[3]

The noun demisionar “one who has resigned” is recorded from 1845, also taken from French.^[2]

Timeline

• 1830 – the noun demisie “resignation”.^[2]
• 1845 – the first record of the verb, in Albineț.^[2][5]
• 1845 – demisionar “one who has resigned”.^[2]
• 1857 – in Polizu's Romanian–German dictionary.^[3]
• 1875 – demissionà in Antonescu's dictionary.^[7]

Meanings

Verb

1. (intransitive) To resign: to leave an office or job of one's own will by handing in a demisie.^[4][3]
2. (transitive, rare) To dismiss someone from a post.^[3]

Related words

• demisionar
• demite

Usage notes

The verb is pronounced with the syllables -si-o-.^[4] DELR records the old, rare variant demisionarisi, and DN the variant dimisiona.^[2][8]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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. demite
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, 638
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 287
5. ^ a b c d e Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. demisiona
6. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. demisiona
7. ^ a b Antonescu, G. M. (1875), Dictionariu romanu-francesu, Bucuresci: Typografia Curții (Lucrători Associați), p. 72
8. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România