scoare

Forms

scoare f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin scōria (“slag”), as Ciorănescu, Pușcariu, the REW and Wiktionary agree.^[2][3][4][1] The Latin word is from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).^[1] It is a doublet of scorie, borrowed from French scorie, and Wiktionary also counts zgură, taken from Greek, as a doublet.^[2][1][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pușcariu took the word, in the sense “slag of wrought iron”, from Frâncu and Candrea's study of the Romanians of the Western Mountains.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. (regional, Transylvania) slag, dross.^[2][1]

Related words

• scorie
• zgură

Usage notes

MDA2 and the DLR treat scoare as a regional variant of scorie and give no entry of its own.^[6][7][8]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. scoare
3. ^ a b Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 140
4. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 7739
5. ^ Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera, p. 182
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 812
7. ^ Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. scoare
8. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 819