răpega

Forms

răpega (third-person singular present rapegă, past participle răpegat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is a regional variant of răpăga “to slip, slide”, beside răpiga, and DLR records this form from Scriban's dictionary.^[2][3] MDA2 and DLR call the verb of unknown origin.^[2][3] Wiktionary suggests a link with repede “quick” or Vulgar Latin *rapicō, or else *repicō from Latin rēpēns (“sudden”) or *repigō from rēpō (“to creep”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

DLR's quotation for this form, a horse that slips on a patch of polished asphalt and falls, is from Scriban.^[3] The main form răpăga is first recorded by MDA2 in Tudor Pamfile's study of Romanian agriculture of 1913.^[2]

Semantic evolution

DLR records răpăga in Transylvania, Banat and Moldavia, of slipping on a steep place or on ice, and of falling as one slips.^[3] Reflexive, it means sliding on the ice, as schoolchildren do; at Brașov it was said of sledging and of steering a sledge with the feet.^[3][2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (regional, rare) To slip, to slide, especially sideways.^[4][1]
2. (regional) To fall by slipping.^[2][1]
3. (regional, reflexive) To slide on the ice; to go sledging: Copiii s-au răpegat toată după-amiaza pe gheață.^[2][3]

Related words

• răpăga
• aluneca

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 636
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. răpăga
4. ^ Bulgăr, Gheorghe; Constantinescu-Dobridor, Gheorghe (2002), Dicționar de arhaisme și regionalisme, 2 vols., București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. răpega