expoziție

Forms

expoziție f (plural expoziții)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin expositiō, taken as a learned word, with French exposition as a second source, as DELR, DEX, MDN and Wiktionary give it;^[2][3][4][1] DELR adds Italian esposizione.^[2][3][4][1] MDA2 and the DLRM give the French word as the source, Tiktin the New Latin one, also through other languages.^[5][6][7] The Latin noun is formed from expōnō (“to set out, expose”) with -tiō.^[8] DELR files the word under expune, the Romanian verb from the same Latin.^[2][9]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin and DELR date the first record to 1763, in a protocol;^[7][2] Tiktin glosses the word “exhibition”.^[7][2] MDA2's first record is Iorgovici's Observații de limba rumânească of 1799, and Tiktin dates the form expozițiune to the same year.^[5][7]

Semantic evolution

The Latin word meant the exposing of a child and a statement or setting out;^[8][5] Romanian has both, a statement or account and, rarely, the abandoning of a child.^[8][5] The senses of a public exhibition, the first part of a literary work and the first section of a sonata or fugue follow the French and Latin words.^[2][3][10] The word also names the aspect of a piece of land or a building, its orientation to the points of the compass.^[5][2] DN adds the major premise of a syllogism.^[10] In recent press usage it forms compounds such as expoziție-concurs (1978) and expoziție-atelier (2008).^[11]

Timeline

• 1763 – first record, in a protocol.^[7][2]
• 1799 – in Iorgovici's Observații de limba rumânească;^[5][7] expozițiune the same year.^[5][7]
• 1916 – the related exponat “exhibit”, from German Exponat.^[2]
• 1978 – expoziție-concurs in the press.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. An organized public exhibition of selected objects, showing an activity, the work of an artist and so on, or for instruction.^[3][5][1]
2. The place or building where such objects are exhibited.^[3][5]
3. The exposition of a literary, especially dramatic, work: its opening part, which sets out the action, the setting and the characters.^[3][5]
4. (music) The first section of a fugue or of a piece in sonata form, which presents the main themes.^[5][4]
5. The orientation of a piece of land or a building towards the points of the compass.^[5][2]
6. (rare) The abandonment of a child.^[5]

Word family

• expozițional

Related words

• expune
• exponat
• expozitiv

Usage notes

DELR records the variants expozițiune (now literary), espoziție, espozițiune, spoziție and the popular ispuziție and spuziție.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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. expoziție
3. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 372
4. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. expoziție
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 864
6. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne
7. ^ a b c d e f g Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. expozíție
8. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
9. ^ Graur, Alexandru (1980), Cuvinte înrudite, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. 91
10. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. expoziție
11. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. expozíție