investigație

Forms

investigație f (plural investigații)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French investigation;^[2][3] DEX, MDA2 and the neologism dictionaries add borrowed from Latin investīgātiō as a second source.^[4][5][2][3] Tiktin gives only the Latin, Wiktionary only the French.^[6][1] The French word is a loan of the late 14th century from the Latin, which meant “careful search, inquiry” and was formed on investīgō (“to track down”), from in- and vestīgō (“to follow the trail”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1785.^[6] In the 19th century the word also had the Latinizing form investigațiune, used by Ion Ionescu in 1868 and by Odobescu.^[6][5][8]

Semantic evolution

The word kept the sense of its source, a careful and systematic search to find something out.^[4][5] Medicine uses it for the clinical and laboratory examination of a patient, and it can also mean a written study of a subject.^[2][9]

Timeline

• 1785 – the first record.^[6]
• 1868 – investigațiune in Ion Ionescu's study of agriculture in Mehedinți.^[5][6]

Meanings

Noun

1. An investigation: a thorough, systematic inquiry meant to discover something.^[4][5]
2. (medicine) The clinical and laboratory examination of a patient.^[2]
3. A written study that examines a subject in detail.^[9]

Related words

• investiga

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. investigație
3. ^ a b Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. s.v. investigaţie
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 521
5. ^ 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, 1158
6. ^ 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. investigație
7. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 542
9. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. investigație