Etymology and origin of the Romanian word intrare
- Confidence
- Established
- Formation
- Derivation
- First attested
- c. 1500–1520 Psaltirea Hurmuzaki More words from the 15th century
- Ultimate origin
- Latin intrō
Etymology tree
Forms
intrare f (plural intrări)[1] The old form is întrare, the only one in the 16th-century psalters and the Bible of 1688.[2][3][4] Scriban still records it as northern.[5]
Etymology
It is the long infinitive of intra “to enter”, used as a noun, formed from Romanian intra + -re.[2][6][1] The verb is from Latin intrō (“to enter”).[7]
Earliest recorded meaning
The first record is in the Psaltirea Hurmuzaki of the early 16th century, Psalm 120:8: „întru întrarea ta și ieșirea ta” “in thy coming in and thy going out”.[8][6] MDA2 cites the Psaltirea Scheiană of about 1573–1578.[2]
Semantic evolution
Besides the act of entering, Tiktin records the place where one goes in, an entrance fee and, in the old language, a beginning.[6] Intrarea în Biserică is the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin on 21 November, popularly Ovidenie.[6][9][5] Pontbriant in 1862 already had intrare în stăpânire “taking possession” and the free ticket to a theatre.[10] Scriban recorded the first course of a meal, after French entrée, and a small street leading to a garden.[5] Modern technical senses include an entry in music, an item of income in accounting and the input of an electronic device.[11]
Timeline
- c. 1500-1520 – întrarea in the Psaltirea Hurmuzaki.[8][6]
- c. 1551-1558 – întrare in the Psaltirea Voronețeană.[3]
- c. 1573-1578 – in the Psaltirea Scheiană.[2]
- 1688 – întrare and întrarea often in the Bucharest Bible.[4]
- 1825 – glossed with Latin introitus in the Lexicon de la Buda.[12]
- 1862 – intrare “entrance”, with the theatre sense, in Pontbriant.[10]
Meanings
Noun
- entry, the act of entering; the entrance, the place through which one goes in; permission to enter.[11][1]
- The beginning of a town or of an area.[11]
- (music) The moment a voice or an instrument comes in.[11][13]
- A small street, often a dead end.[11]
- (accounting) A value recorded as income.[11]
- The registration of incoming letters and requests at an office.[11]
- (electronics) The point at which a signal is fed into a device; input.[11]
Related words
- ieșire
- intrat
References
- ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ 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, 1155
- ^ a b Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 131:3
- ^ a b Biblia, adecă Dumnezeiasca Scriptură a ceii vechi și a ceii noao leage, București, 1688 (ed. 1988, tricentennial edition), p. Judges 1:24
- ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 653
- ^ 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. intrare
- ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1154
- ^ a b Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 120:8
- ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. intrare
- ^ a b Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 371
- ^ a b c d e f g h DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 519
- ^ Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 318
- ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. intrare
Related etymologies
Cite this entry
“Intrare.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/intrare. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.
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