nerăbdare

Forms

nerăbdare f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian ne- + răbdare, the negative of “patience”.^[2][3][4][1] The base is the long infinitive of răbda, used as a noun.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin records the word from 1642 with the sense “impatience”.^[4] MDA2 gives its first record in Ion Budai-Deleanu's Romanian–German lexicon of 1818.^[2]

Semantic evolution

From “lack of patience” the word came to name the tense state of someone waiting, a restlessness caused by waiting, a burning wish to start something and haste to finish it.^[2][3] The Lexicon de la Buda of 1825 glosses it with Latin impatientia, Hungarian türhetetlenség and German Ungeduld.^[6] Șăineanu adds the sense “nervous irritation”, which DEX and MDA2 also list.^[7][3][2] The phrase cu nerăbdare “impatiently, eagerly” is common in the 19th-century classics.^[8]

Timeline

• 1642 – first record, “impatience”.^[4]
• 1818 – in Ion Budai-Deleanu's Romanian–German lexicon.^[2]
• 1825 – in the Lexicon de la Buda, glossed “impatientia, Ungeduld”.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. impatience, lack of patience; the restless state of someone who is waiting.^[3][2][1]
2. An eager wish or hurry to begin or to finish something: Aștepta vacanța cu nerăbdare.^[3][2]
3. irritation, nervousness.^[3][7]

Related words

• răbdare
• răbda

Usage notes

The phrase cu nerăbdare means “impatiently, eagerly”, and in older texts în nerăbdare was used in the same way.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 141
3. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 710
4. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. nerăbdare
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 628
6. ^ a b 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. 438
7. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 428
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 200