explozibil

Forms

explozibil m or n (feminine singular explozibilă, masculine plural explozibili, feminine/neuter plural explozibile)^[1] Older spellings were esplosibil and esplozibil: „Când se duce lampa aceasta într-o amestecătură esplosibilă, atunci se produce o detunaţie înăuntrul ei” “when this lamp is carried into an explosive mixture, a detonation takes place inside it” (1852).^[2][3][4]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French explosible (“explosive”), a learned word of the 19th century.^{[3][4][5][6][1][2]} DELR derives the French word from explosion (“explosion”);^[1] Wiktionary analyses it as exploser (“to explode”) with the suffix -ible.^[3][1] The noun explozie, borrowed from that French noun, is recorded earlier, from 1830.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The word is first recorded in 1852, as esplosibil, in Alexie Marin's Romanian translation of Pelouze and Fremy's abridged chemistry: an “explosive mixture” of gases that makes a lamp detonate.^[2][3][4]

Semantic evolution

It began as a technical term of chemistry for a substance able to explode.^[2][5] As a noun it came to mean an explosive, and by extension an artillery shell;^[7] Caragiale used it of torpedo boats loaded with explosives.^[2] Caragiale also used it figuratively, of a polemical article thrown as „o bombă explosibilă” “an explosive bomb” at the weak point of his opponents' fortress.^[2] In modern use it is a synonym of exploziv.^[5][7]

Timeline

• 1852 – esplosibil in Alexie Marin's chemistry translation.^[2][3][4]
• 1922 – the rare verb exploza “to explode”, from French exploser.^[3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Able to explode; explosive.^[5][4][1]

Noun

1. An explosive, a substance that can explode; by extension, an artillery shell.^[5][2][1]

Related words

• exploda
• explozie
• exploziv

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. explozibil
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. exploda
4. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 863
5. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 372
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. explozibil
7. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. explozibil