impresionant

Forms

impresionant m or n (feminine singular impresionantă, masculine plural impresionanți, feminine/neuter plural impresionante)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French impressionnant, a 19th- or 20th-century neologism.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} It belongs with impresiona, from impressionner.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The MDA2's first record is in Mihail Sadoveanu.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Besides the sense “moving, stirring”, the word means “astonishing” and “imposing”, and it is often used as an adverb, as in impresionant de asemănătoare “strikingly alike” in Sadoveanu.^[2][6]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Making a strong impression; moving, stirring; astonishing.^[2][3][1]
2. imposing, impozant.^[2][7]

Adverb

1. impressively, strikingly: impresionant de mare “impressively big”.^[2][6]

Related words

• impresiona
• impresie

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 495
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1120
4. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. impresionant
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. impresionant
6. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 500
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. impresionant