scanare

Forms

scanare f (plural scanări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of scana, formed from Romanian scana + -re.^[2][3][1] The verb is borrowed from the English word scan.^[2][4][3] Dimitrescu also compares the English verb directly.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The MDA2 dates the noun and the verb from the second edition of the DEX (1998), which defines it simply as the act of scanning.^[3][6]

Semantic evolution

The first sense is technical and medical: the exploration of a body or surface with a scaner.^[3][5] The second is the digitizing of images and texts with a scanner.^[3] The press of the 2000s uses it for the scanning of the iris and, figuratively, for a quick survey of something, and in computing scanare antivirus.^[5]

Timeline

• 1998 – first record, in the DEX.^[3]
• 2000 – the figurative “survey, review” in the press.^[5]
• 2004 – scanare antivirus in the press.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. scanning, a scan: the exploration of something with a scaner, in technology and medicine.^[2][3]
2. The digitizing of images or texts with a scanner.^[3][1]
3. (figurative) A quick, methodical survey: o scanare a presei.^[5]

Related words

• scana
• scaner

References

1. ^ a b c 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. 984
3. ^ 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, 788
4. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. scana
5. ^ a b c d e f Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. scanáre
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 955