revedea

Forms

revedea (third-person singular present revede, past participle revăzut, third-person subjunctive revadă), 2nd conjugation^[1] MDA2 records the present revăd, the subjunctive să revază (regional) and the old să reveadă, and the simple past revăzui.^[2]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian re- + vedea, on the model of French revoir, as DEX, the DLR and the neologism dictionaries say.^[3][4][5][6] Tiktin names Italian rivedere as the model instead, and Wiktionary both.^[7][1] Nocentini treats the Italian and French verbs and Spanish rever as parallel, independent formations.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1832.^[7] The DLR's first quotation is from Ion Heliade Rădulescu: „Nici să mai ai speranță a revedere cerul” “nor to hope any more to see the sky again”.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was “to see again” and, reflexively, “to meet again after a long time”; a periodical of 1848 already has a revedea pe sir Lionel.^[4] Șăineanu adds “to subject to revision”, as in revising a written work.^[9] DEX also has the figurative “to see in memory as it once was”.^[3] The noun revedere gives the leave-taking formula la revedere “goodbye”.^[1]

Timeline

• 1832 – first record.^[7]
• 1848 – a revedea “to see (someone) again” in a periodical.^[4]
• 1893 – Damé glosses it with French revoir.^[10]
• 1929 – “to revise (a work)” in Șăineanu.^[9]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive and reflexive) To see again; to meet again after some time.^[3][2][1]
2. (figurative) To see in memory as it once was; to recall the past.^[3]
3. (transitive) To read or examine a text again; to revise, review.^[3][11]

Word family

• revedere

Related words

• vedea
• French revoir
• Italian rivedere

Usage notes

La revedere “goodbye” is formed on the noun revedere.^[1]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 702
3. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 951
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. revedea
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. revedea
8. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
9. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 548
10. ^ Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. s.v. revedea
11. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. revedea