secție

Forms

secție f (plural secții)^[1] Documents of the 1830s spell it secsie: „la secsia I-iu a Ilfovului” “to the first section of Ilfov” (1839).^[2] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 prints it in the transitional alphabet as SEКЦIE, with the variant secțiune.^[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Russian секция (sekcija) and also borrowed from French section: DEX, the DILF and Marcu & Maneca put Russian first, MDA2 and the DLR give French, Latin and Russian, and Tiktin and NODEX French alone.^{[4][5][6][7][2][8][9]} MDA2 and the DLR add Latin sectiō (“a cutting”).^[7][2] Wiktionary takes the Russian word from French, Șăineanu from German Sektion.^[1][10] The French word is a learned loan from Latin, recorded since 1366, and the Latin noun is formed on secō (“to cut”) with the suffix -tiō.^[11][1][12] Wiktionary calls it a doublet of secțiune.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1789, citing Victor Vascenco's study of Russian influences in the prints of Mihail Strilbițchi.^[8] MDA2's first record is the Regulamentul organic of Wallachia (1832), where each of three ministers is to have his department divided into sections, despărțit în secții.^[7][2]

Semantic evolution

In the 1830s the word named the sections of the administration and the courts: a document of 1831 has șeful secsiei “the head of the section”, and the court of Dolj county had a secția a 2-a in 1834.^[2] Negulici defined it in 1848 as a division of a book or treatise, and in geometry as the line along which a plane cuts a body.^[3] Șăineanu's dictionary of 1929 gives the sense “district of a town, police station” and takes it from Russian.^[10]

The police sense lived on as secție de miliție in the 1950s, and secție de poliție today.^[13][7] The word also names a department of a factory, a store, a museum or a hospital, and secție de votare a polling station.^[4][7]

Timeline

• 1789 – the first record, cited by Tiktin from Vascenco's study of Strilbițchi's prints.^[8]
• 1831 – șeful secsiei in an administrative document.^[2]
• 1832 – secții in the Regulamentul organic of Wallachia.^[7][2]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary, “division of a book; geometrical section”.^[3]
• 1929 – Șăineanu records “district of a town, police station”.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. A department or organizational subunit of an enterprise or institution; the hall, workshop or premises where it works; a department of a store or museum.^[4][7]
2. A subdivision of a town's administration or police; its premises, a police station.^[4][7]
3. secție de votare: each subdivision of an electoral constituency; the polling station where its voters vote.^[4][7]

Related words

• secțiune
• sector

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. secție
3. ^ a b c 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. secție
4. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 998
5. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. s.v. secție
6. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. secție
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 842
8. ^ 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. secție
9. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. secție
10. ^ a b c Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 581
11. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
12. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
13. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 88