rezolvare

Forms

rezolvare f (plural rezolvări)^[1] The older form is rezolvire: Teodor Stamati wrote in 1849 of „rezolvirea feliuritelor problemi” “the solving of various problems”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian rezolva + -re, the long infinitive of the verb.^[4][3][2][1] The verb is a learned word taken from Latin resolvō and German resolvieren, according to DEX, MDA2 and the DLR;^[4][3][5][6] Tiktin adds Italian risolvere.^[4][3][5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is the physics textbook of Teodor Stamati (Iași, 1849), in the old form rezolvire and in the sense “solving (a problem)”.^[3][2] The verb is older: Tiktin dates it to 1791, MDA2 to 1834.^[6][3]

Semantic evolution

The noun follows the senses of rezolva: the solving of a problem, the settling of a dispute or conflict, and in mathematics the finding of the unknown dimensions of a figure.^[3][4] MDA2 also records the decomposition of a substance into its elements, a medical sense (the subsiding of an inflammation or tumour), and a dated sense “decision”.^[3] In 1929 Șăineanu still gave “reduction of a substance into its parts” first, as in the melting of ice in water, and the solving of a problem as a figurative sense.^[7] Scriban equated it with rezoluție.^[8]

Timeline

• 1791 – the verb rezolva, in Tiktin's first record.^[6]
• 1849 – rezolvire “solving” in Stamati's Fizica elementară.^[3][2]
• 1929 – Șăineanu glosses rezolvare first as the breaking down of a substance, then as the solving of a problem.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of solving something and its result; solution, soluționare.^[4][3][9]
2. The settling of a controversy, a dispute or a conflict.^[3][10]
3. (mathematics) The working out of a problem, or of the unknown dimensions of a geometric figure.^[3]
4. (rare) The decomposition of a substance into its elements.^[3][7]

Related words

• rezolva
• rezoluție

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. rezolvare
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 707
4. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 954
5. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. rezolva
6. ^ 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. rezolva
7. ^ a b c Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 549
8. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1127
9. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. rezolvare
10. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 746