notiță

Forms

notiță f (plural notițe)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French notice.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} Scriban names Italian notizia and Latin nōtitia beside the French word.^[6] The Romanian ending made it feel like a diminutive in -iță of notă, and DEX defines it so.^[2][7]

The French noun was borrowed from Latin in 1369; the Latin word is formed on the supine of nōscō (“to get to know”).^[8] The modern sense “short text that presents a subject” arose in French in the 17th century.^[8] The older Romanian notiție, recorded from 1799, came from the Latin and Italian words, and the two are doublets.^[3][9][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is in the works of Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, in the sense “note, short notice”.^[3] Alecu Russo wrote that România literară opened with „o notiță tristă” “a sad notice” on the death of Nicolae Bălcescu.^[4][7]

Semantic evolution

At first a notiță was a short written account, the kind of piece a newspaper printed: biographical, critical or obituary notices.^[4][6][10] Șăineanu (1929) also gives “reasoned extract”.^[11] In the plural it came to mean the notes a student takes at a lecture or lesson.^[7][2] MDA2 records the rare phrase a lua notiță (de ceva) “to take note of something”.^[3] It took over the meanings of notiție, which the dictionaries now mark as obsolete.^[9][2]

Timeline

• 1799 – the older notiție, in Paul Iorgovici.^[3]
• 1862 – notiță in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[4]
• 1886 – in Barcianu's dictionary.^[4]
• 1929 – Șăineanu: “short description; reasoned extract”.^[11]
• 1955–1957 – the DLRLC gives the plural sense “lecture notes”.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A short note;^[2][3] (felt as a diminutive of notă) a brief written record.^[2][3]
2. A short piece of news or information, usually published: o notiță biografică.^[2][10]
3. (in the plural) Notes taken at a lecture, a lesson and the like.^[2][5]

Related words

• notă
• notiție

Usage notes

The plural is notițe; regional speech also has notiți.^[3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. 722
3. ^ 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, 170
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. notiță
5. ^ a b 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. 877
7. ^ a b c d Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 223
8. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
9. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. notiție
10. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. notiță
11. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 433