lemnamă

Forms

lemnamă f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

DLR and MDA2 take it as inherited from Latin lignāmen (“timber”).^[2][3] Ciorănescu says only that it seems to reproduce that Latin word, after the DA, and Wiktionary gives as an alternative a Romanian formation on lemn “wood”.^[4][1] The Latin noun is formed from lignum (“wood, firewood”) with the suffix -men, and is attested in the Edict of Rothari.^[1] It also gave Italian legname (“timber”).^[1][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is not a text but a dictionary: Candrea and Densusianu's etymological dictionary of the Latin element (1907–1914), which MDA2 gives as its first attestation.^[3] The DA (II, p. 154) lists it under lemn, and the only later source DLR names is an article in CL 1968.^[2] The sense is a great heap of wood.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The word is known only from the Banat.^[2][3][4] Besides a large pile of wood it can mean a great number of trees.^[2][3] Wiktionary labels it obsolete and rare.^[1]

Meanings

Noun

1. (regional, Banat) A large heap of wood; lemnime.^[2][3][1]
2. (regional, Banat) A great number of trees.^[2][3]

Related words

• lemn
• lemnar
• lemnos

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. lemnamă
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1345
4. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. lemn
5. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier