muzical

Forms

muzical m or n (feminine singular muzicală, masculine plural muzicali, feminine/neuter plural muzicale)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French musical.^{[2][3][4][1][5]} Scriban also names Italian musicale.^[6] The French adjective is from Medieval Latin mūsicālis.^[1] By its form it matches from Romanian muzică + -al.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is from 1830, in a text that DLR cites as CR, about people walking the streets until after midnight with „felurimi de organe muzicale” “all kinds of musical instruments”.^[3][4] MDA2 records the old spelling musical.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Older Romanian also had muzicesc for the same sense, and muzicos is a rare formation;^[3][4] muzical replaced them.^[3][4] Beside “of or for music” it came to mean “gifted for music” and, of sounds and voices, “harmonious, melodious”, often as an adverb.^[2][7] Șăineanu's dictionary gives the sense “at which music is played”, as in serată muzicală “musical evening”.^[8]

Timeline

• 1830 – organe muzicale “musical instruments”, the first record.^[3][4]
• 1939 – Scriban records the adverb, of a child gifted for music.^[6]
• 1969–1974 – the compound muzical-coregrafic “of music and dance” in the press.^[9]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of, relating to or for music.^[2][3][1]
2. At which music is performed: o seară muzicală.^[2][8]
3. Gifted with a sense of or talent for music.^[2][10]
4. Of sounds or a voice: harmonious, melodious; often used as an adverb.^[2][7]

Related words

• muzică

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 687
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 90
4. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. muzical
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
6. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 847
7. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
8. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 416
9. ^ Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. muzical
10. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional