obiecție

Forms

obiecție f (plural obiecții)^[1] The variant obiecțiune (also written objecțiune) was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries: „Voi lua cestiunea… așa cum a pus-o legea în față cu obiecțiunile prea fericirii voastre” “I shall take up the question as the law has put it, in face of the objections of Your Beatitude” (1865).^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French objection.^[3][4][2][1] The neologism dictionaries also name Latin obiectiō (“reproach”).^[5][6] The French word comes from the Latin, which is formed on obiciō (“to throw against, to reproach”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Stamati's dictionary of 1851.^[4][2] The earliest dated quotation in DLR, of 1865, has the variant obiecțiunile “the objections”.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The word kept the French sense, an argument raised against a thesis or claim, usually with the verbs a face, a ridica “to raise” or a avea.^[2][3] Maiorescu and Ibrăileanu still write obiecțiune; the shorter obiecție appears in Gherea and became the standard form.^[2]

Timeline

• 1851 – in Stamati's dictionary, the first record.^[4][2]
• 1865 – obiecțiunile in a document of the Uricariul collection.^[2]

Meanings

Noun

1. An objection: an argument raised against a thesis, proposal or claim; a remark expressing disagreement.^[3][4][1]

Related words

• obiecta

Usage notes

The i is pronounced as a separate syllable: o-bi-ec-ți-e.^[2][4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. obiecție
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 728
4. ^ 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. 2, 183
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. s.v. objectio