repetiție

Forms

repetiție f (plural repetiții)^[1] The older form repetițiune is now rare.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French répétition.^[4][2][1] Tiktin names Italian ripetizione as a second model, and Marcu names Latin repetītiō beside the French word, the multiple etymology of Romanian lexicography.^[3][5] The French word is itself a learned borrowing from the Latin.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in 1810, in Obradovici's Povățuire, a short guide to teaching for village and town schoolmasters, with the sense “repetition”.^[2][3] Negulici's dictionary of neologisms (1848) glosses it with the native rezicere “saying again”.^[6]

Semantic evolution

Besides the general sense “repetition”, the word took on the theatrical sense “rehearsal”, already used by Alecsandri, who had to watch over the rehearsals of his Fântâna Blanduziei.^[7][3] In schools it is a lesson that goes over the material already taught; in stylistics a figure in which a word or group of words is repeated for emphasis.^[4] Armă cu repetiție is a repeating firearm that reloads by itself, and repetiție generală the dress rehearsal.^[4]

In late 19th-century Maramureș, curs de repetiție was the Sunday school: lessons for children of 12 to 15, held mostly on Sunday afternoons.^[8] In law the word also names an action to recover money paid without being owed.^[2][9]

Timeline

• 1810 – in Obradovici's Povățuire, the first record.^[2][3]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. repetition: saying or doing the same words, ideas or actions again: armă cu repetiție “repeating firearm”.^[4][1]
2. A rehearsal by performers preparing a show or concert: repetiție generală “dress rehearsal”.^[4][1]
3. A review by pupils of the material already taught, at school or at home.^[4]
4. A figure of speech in which a word or group of words is used again to stress an idea.^[4][9]
5. (law) An action for the recovery of money paid but not owed.^[9][2]

Related words

• repeta
• repetare
• French répétition

References

1. ^ a b c d e 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, 692
3. ^ a b c d e Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. repetiție
4. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 944
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. repetiție
6. ^ 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. 346
7. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 726
8. ^ Ștef, Dorin (2021), Dicționar de regionalisme și arhaisme din județul Maramureș, 3rd ed., Baia Mare, p. s.v. repetiție
9. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. repetiție