raporta

Forms

raporta (third-person singular present raportează, past participle raportat), first conjugation^[1] In the senses “to yield income” the third person is raportă.^[2] Older texts have the variants reporta, răporta and rapurta: „Reportau spionii faimă foarte bună” “the spies reported very good news” (Mureșanu).^[3][4] An older verb raportui had the same sense.^[5][4]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French rapporter.^[2][3][4][1] Tiktin connects it with the noun raport, modelled on the French verb.^[5] Graur counts it among the Romanian words of the family of Latin portō (“to carry”), with purta;^[6] the related noun comes from rapport, a back-formation from the French verb.^[6]

The French verb is from Old French and goes back to Latin reportō.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is from 1774, in the sense “to report”.^[5] In 1848 Negulici gave it as rapportare “to tell, to make something known”, reflexive “to relate to, to agree with”.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The official sense, to present a report to a superior or an assembly, is the oldest;^[2] Caragiale has „anchetați urgent scandalul ... și raportați imediat” “investigate the scandal urgently ... and report at once”.^[4][2] From it come “to tell tales on someone” and “to report indiscreetly”.^[3][2]

The reflexive a se raporta la “to relate to, to refer to” and the transitive “to put in relation, to consider in relation to” are also recorded; mathematics, surveying and law took further technical senses: to reduce a quantity to the unit, to plot survey data on a plan, and to bring a gift back into an estate.^[3][2] The rare sense “to yield income” has the present raportă, and the DLRLC lists it as a separate verb.^[8][2]

Timeline

• 1774 – the first record, “to report”.^[5]
• 1848 – rapportare in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[7]
• 1862 – raporta “rapporter, relater” in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[9]

Meanings

Verb

1. To put two or more notions in relation; to consider something in relation to something else; reflexive: to refer to, to allude to.^[2][3][1]
2. (mathematics) To find the value of a quantity when a second quantity equals one.^[2]
3. (surveying) To plot the elements of a land survey on a plan at a given scale.^[2][3]
4. To present a report, written or spoken, especially an official one; to bring something to someone's notice; to report.^[2][3]
5. To tell something indiscreetly or with malice; to tell tales.^[2]
6. To yield income or profit.^[2]
7. (law) To bring a gift received earlier back into an estate, so that it can be shared equally among the heirs.^[3]

Related words

• raport
• purta

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 912
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, 625
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. raporta
5. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. raporta
6. ^ a b Graur, Alexandru (1980), Cuvinte înrudite, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. 74
7. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. raportare
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 654
9. ^ Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 605