evadare

Forms

evadare f (plural evadări)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian evada + -re, the long infinitive of the verb.^[1][2][3] The verb is évader and ēvādere “to go out, escape”, the Latin verb being formed ex- and vādō (“to go”).^[4][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 takes its first record from Resmeriță's dictionary, with the sense of a secret escape from a prison or camp.^[2][5] MDA2 dates the verb evada itself to 1794, DELR to 1871.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

Besides the escape from prison, MDA2 gives leaving a place quietly to get away from an awkward situation or surroundings, and two figurative senses: release from a moral difficulty, and freedom from an influence.^[2] The DLR quotes the prison sense from Camil Petrescu, Sadoveanu, Arghezi and Călinescu.^[5] The DLRLC quotes the figurative escape from reality, a flight into the literature of the past, from the Contemporanul of 1953.^[6]

Timeline

• 1794 – the verb evada in a calendar.^[2]
• 1871 – the verb in Laurian and Massim's dictionary.^[4]
• 1953 – the figurative “escape from reality” in Contemporanul.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. escape: the act of escaping from a prison, a camp or captivity: Evadarea a fost pregătită luni de zile.^[3][2]
2. A quiet departure from somewhere to get out of an awkward situation or surroundings.^[2]
3. (figurative) Release from a moral difficulty, or from an influence; a flight from reality.^[2][6]

Related words

• evaziune
• French évader

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 845
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 365
4. ^ a b c 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. evada
5. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. evadare
6. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 227