rulotă

Forms

rulotă f (plural rulote)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French roulotte.^{[2][3][1][4][5][6][7]} Wiktionary takes the French word from Old French ruele with the suffix -otte.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Alexi's Romanian–German dictionary of 1906, with a sense that DLR marks as unusual: a railing on a dock.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The modern sense, a vehicle towed by a car and fitted out as a small living room, is the one the dictionaries of neologisms record;^[5][6][4] Marcu and Maneca also count a car fitted out as a dwelling.^[5][6][4] DEX 1998 describes a two-wheeled trailer, and DEX 2009 allows two or four wheels.^[8][2] Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words records the compound casă-rulotă.^[9]

Timeline

• 1906 – in Alexi's dictionary, in the sense “railing on a dock”.^[3][4]
• 1998 – DEX defines it as a two-wheeled trailer fitted out for living in.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. A caravan, trailer: a vehicle with two or four wheels, towed by a car and fitted out with the comforts of a small room.^[2][3][1]
2. (rare) A railing on a dock.^[3][4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 967
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 735
4. ^ 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. rulotă
5. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria
8. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 938
9. ^ Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. rulotă