serie

Forms

serie f (plural serii)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French série, and also Latin seriēs (“row, chain, succession”).^[2][3][4][1] Tiktin names French and Italian serie, Scriban and Graur only the Latin.^[5][6][7] The French word is a learned loan of 1715 from the Latin.^[8]

The Latin noun is formed on serō (“to join, bind, interweave”) with the suffix -iēs.^[9][1] Graur places aserțiune, dezertor and dizertație in the same Latin family.^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Petrache Poenaru's Elemente de algebră of 1841, as a mathematical term: „Acest șir să se numească seria a doua” “let this sequence be called the second series”.^[2][4][5]

Semantic evolution

The mathematical sense came first, and dictionaries of the 19th century still give it first.^[4][10] Negulici's dictionary of neologisms (1848) explains it with the native words șir and urmare, “row, succession”.^[11] Costinescu (1870) adds a division of classified objects and o serie de questiuni “a series of questions”.^[10] Scriban records the order of living beings in natural history and the groups into which candidates were divided.^[6] Industry brought the phrases în serie “mass-produced” and de serie “standard, ordinary”, and the serial number on goods.^[3]

Timeline

• 1841 – seria a doua “the second series” in Poenaru's algebra, the first record.^[2][4]
• 1848 – listed in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[11]
• 1870 – Costinescu adds the general sense “succession”.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. A series: a row of terms following a rule; an unbroken succession of things or events of the same kind; by extension, a large number: o serie de concerte “a series of concerts”.^[3][1]
2. A group or category within a succession or a classification.^[3]
3. (mathematics) An expression made of an infinity of terms derived from one another by a rule and joined by plus or minus signs.^[3][2]
4. (chemistry) A group of organic compounds each of which has one carbon atom and two hydrogen atoms more than the one before.^[3]
5. A serial number put on goods made in many copies of the same type.^[3]
6. (geology) The strata laid down during one geological epoch.^[3]
7. (linguistics) A group of sounds or phonemes with a feature in common.^[3]

Related words

• aserțiune
• dizertație

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 863
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1008
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. serie
5. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. serie
6. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1191
7. ^ a b Graur, Alexandru (1980), Cuvinte înrudite, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. 87
8. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
10. ^ a b c Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 507
11. ^ 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. s.v. serie