reuniune

Forms

reuniune f (plural reuniuni)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French réunion (“reunion, meeting”), a neologism of the 19th century.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The DLR and MDA2 compare Italian riunione, and the DN gives both the French and the Italian word as models.^[6][3][7] Gabinschi likewise allows a borrowing from either language, and traces the French word to Latin re- and ūniō (“union, oneness”).^[8] Scriban saw it as from Romanian re- + uniune modelled on the French word.^[9] MDA2 records a rare variant riuniune, closer to the Italian form.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Barițiu's Hungarian–Romanian dictionary of 1869 already gives reuniune as an equivalent of Hungarian “association” and “gathering place”.^[10][11] Costinescu's dictionary of 1870 defines it as the act of reuniting, a gathering of people and a reconciliation.^[12] MDA2 dates its first record in a text to 1889, in Barițiu's history of Transylvania.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The main sense is a meeting of a group of people.^[2][6] The word also named an association or society, a sense the dictionaries now mark as dated: the DLRLC's example is the name of a Romanian women's association.^[13][3] In sport it came to mean a competition or meeting, and in mathematics the union of two sets.^[7][4]

Timeline

• 1869 – in Barițiu's Hungarian–Romanian dictionary as an equivalent of “association” and “gathering place”.^[10]
• 1870 – “gathering, reunion, reconciliation” in Costinescu's dictionary.^[12]
• 1886 – glossed as German “Verein, Reunion” in Barcianu's dictionary.^[14]
• 1889 – the first record MDA2 gives, in Barițiu's history of Transylvania.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A meeting or gathering of a group of people.^[2][3]
2. (sports) A friendly or official sporting competition.^[2][7]
3. (dated) An association or society.^[2][13]
4. (mathematics) The union of two sets: the set of the elements that belong to at least one of them.^[7][4]
5. (rare) A joining together.^[3]

Related words

• uniune
• reuni

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 950
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, 701
4. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
5. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria
6. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. reuniune
7. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
8. ^ Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera
9. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1123
10. ^ a b Barițiu, George (1869), Dictionariu unguresc-romanescu, Brașov, p. 121
11. ^ Barițiu, George (1869), Dictionariu unguresc-romanescu, Brașov, p. 210
12. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 441
13. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 738
14. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 548