rezulta

Forms

rezulta (third-person singular present rezultă, past participle rezultat); first conjugation^[1] Older texts write it resulta: „resultă că aceste stele nu sînt totdeauna la aceeași distanță de soare” “it follows that these stars are not always at the same distance from the sun” (Drăghiceanu).^[2] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 has it as resultare in the transitional alphabet and gives both resultă and resultează for the present.^[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French résulter (“to result”), a 19th-century loan.^{[4][5][6][7][1]} French borrowed its verb in 1491 from Latin resultō (“to spring back, rebound”), which in Medieval Latin also meant “to appear as the effect of something”; it is formed re- (“back”) and saltō (“to jump, dance”).^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and Tiktin date the first record to 1836.^[4][6] In Negulici's dictionary of 1848 it means to follow or arise from a fact or a circumstance.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The verb kept the abstract, logical sense of French résulter: to follow as a consequence, to emerge from something.^[5][8] The Latin senses of bouncing back did not come with it.^[8] In arithmetic it means to come out of a calculation as its result.^[5][2] It is used only in the third person, as Negulici already noted.^[3][5]

The noun rezultat “result” is a separate loan, from French résultat and German Resultat, and is recorded a little earlier, before 1829.^[4]

Timeline

• 1491 – French résulter, borrowed from Latin.^[8]
• before 1829 – the noun rezultat.^[4]
• 1836 – rezulta, the first record.^[4][6]
• 1848 – resultare in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[3]

Meanings

Verb

1. (intransitive, third person) To follow as a logical consequence; to arise from, to emerge: Din raport rezultă că lucrările au întârziat.^[5][4]
2. To be obtained, to come out of a process.^[4][2]
3. (mathematics) To come out as the result of a calculation.^[5][4]

Related words

• rezultat
• French résulter

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. rezulta
3. ^ a b c d 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. resultare
4. ^ 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, 707
5. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 954
6. ^ 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. rezultá
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. rezulta
8. ^ a b c d Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert