omucidere

Forms

omucidere f (plural omucideri)^[1] The variants omicidere, recorded in 1830, and omocidere, in 1859, were also used; the DLR compares omicidere with omicid.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is a compound from Romanian om (“man”) + ucidere (“killing”), “the killing of a man”.^[2][3][4][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DLR date the standard form to 1852, in I. Brezoianu's Romanian translation of Raspail's Manualul sănătății “manual of health”, with the sense “murder”.^[3][2] The variant omicidere is recorded earlier, in 1830.^[2]

Semantic evolution

Barițiu's Hungarian–Romanian dictionary of 1869 gives omucidere as the Romanian for Hungarian gyilkosság “murder” and for emberölés.^[5][6] Costinescu's dictionary of 1870 also records a verb a omucide “to kill a man”, with the French equivalent homicider.^[7] The word has kept its meaning; it is used above all in law, and NODEX marks it as rare.^[8][9] Rebreanu wrote that no homicide had been heard of in the village of Pripas within living memory.^[2]

Timeline

• 1830 – the variant omicidere.^[2]
• 1852 – omucidere “murder” in Brezoianu's translation of Raspail.^[3][2]
• 1859 – the variant omocidere.^[2]
• 1869 – the equivalent of Hungarian gyilkosság in Barițiu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1870 – omucidere and the verb a omucide in Costinescu's dictionary.^[7]
• 1886 – glossed German Mordthat “act of murder” in Barcianu.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. (law) homicide, murder: the killing of a person.^[4][8][9]

Related words

• om
• ucide
• omor

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. omucidere
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 211
4. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 742
5. ^ a b Barițiu, George (1869), Dictionariu unguresc-romanescu, Brașov, p. 206
6. ^ Barițiu, George (1869), Dictionariu unguresc-romanescu, Brașov, p. 140
7. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 206
8. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 267
9. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. omucidere
10. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 442