reputație

Forms

reputație f (plural reputații)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French réputation and at the same time borrowed from Latin reputātiō, as DEX, MDA2 and the neologism dictionaries give it.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Wiktionary names only the French word, itself from the Latin one.^[1] The Latin noun is formed on reputō (“to reckon, to think over”) with the suffix -tiō and meant “consideration, reflection” and “reckoning”.^[7][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Simeon Marcovici's course of rhetoric, printed in Bucharest in 1834.^[3] Negulici's dictionary of neologisms of 1848 glosses it as renown, esteem, public opinion and good name.^[9]

Semantic evolution

The word means the public opinion, good or bad, held about someone or something, the way a person is known and judged.^[2][3][4] By extension it also means renown and fame.^[2][4] An obsolete variant reputațiune has the Latinate ending, and MDA2 also records an old reputăciune.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 1834 – in Simeon Marcovici's course of rhetoric, the first record.^[3]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. reputation: the public opinion, favourable or unfavourable, about someone or something; the way someone is known or judged.^[2][3][1]
2. renown, fame, celebrity.^[2][10]

Related words

• reputat
• French réputation
• Latin reputātiō

Usage notes

The variant reputațiune is obsolete.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. 946
3. ^ 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, 694
4. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. reputație
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. reputație
6. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
8. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
9. ^ 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. reputație
10. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. reputație