Etymology and origin of the Romanian word rezultat
- Confidence
- Established
- Formation
- Borrowing
- First attested
- 1814 More words from the 19th century
- Borrowed from
- French résultat
- Ultimate origin
- Latin resultō
Pronunciation
- /re.zulˈtat/[1]
Forms
rezultat n (plural rezultate or rezultaturi)[1]
Etymology
It is borrowed from French résultat (“result”), borrowed from German Resultat, a neologism of the early 19th century.[2][3][4][5][6][1] DN gives only the French source, and Scriban derives the French word from Medieval Latin.[7][8] The French word is a learned borrowing of Medieval Latin resultātum, the noun use of the neuter past participle of resultō.[1] German took the word from French about 1700.[9] In scholastic philosophy the Medieval Latin verb meant “to follow from”, a sense developed from classical Latin resultō (“to spring back, rebound”).[9][10]
Earliest recorded meaning
Tiktin dates the first record to 1814.[4] MDA2's first record is from 1829, in Albina românească, where a school promises fericite rezultaturi seau bune urmări “happy results or good consequences”.[3][5]
Semantic evolution
The old plural was rezultaturi, usual in the 1830s and 1840s (rezultaturi statistice 1836), beside the modern rezultate.[5][3] Writers of the mid-19th century, among them Bălcescu, Negruzzi and Maiorescu, spelled it resultat.[5] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 explains resultat as what follows from a debate or an event: an outcome, a consequence, a conclusion.[11] Two common phrases are fără rezultat “in vain” and a da rezultat(e) “to bring the desired effect”.[2][12] In the plural it also means concrete achievements.[3] Sports writing has the compound rezultat-surpriză “surprise result” (from 1970).[13]
Timeline
- 1814 – the first record Tiktin cites.[4]
- 1829 – rezultaturi in Albina românească.[3][5]
- 1836 – rezultaturi statistice “statistical results”.[5]
- 1848 – resultat in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.[11]
- 1970 – rezultat-surpriză in the sports press.[13]
Meanings
Noun
- A result, outcome or consequence of an action, a fact or a calculation: Rezultatul alegerilor a fost anunțat aseară.[2][1]
- (in the plural) Concrete achievements: o echipă cu rezultate bune.[3]
- (mathematics) The number obtained by a series of arithmetic operations.[2][7]
Related words
- rezulta
- French résultat
Usage notes
Wikționar also treats rezultat as the participle of the verb rezulta.[14]
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 954
- ^ 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, 707
- ^ 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. rezultat
- ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. rezultat
- ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. rezultat
- ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. rezultat
- ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1127
- ^ a b Pfeifer, Wolfgang, et al. (1993), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 2nd ed., Berlin: Akademie-Verlag; digital revised version in the DWDS, dwds.de
- ^ Kluge, Friedrich; Seebold, Elmar (2011), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 25th ed., Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter
- ^ 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. 349
- ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria
- ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. rezultat
- ^ Wikționar (Romanian Wiktionary), ro.wiktionary.org
Related etymologies
Cite this entry
“Rezultat.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/rezultat. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.
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