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Etymology and origin of the Romanian word sincronizare

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Ultimate origin
French synchroniser

Forms

sincronizare f (plural sincronizări)[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of sincroniza “to synchronize”, used as a noun: from Romanian sincroniza + -re.[2][1][3][4] The verb is French synchroniser, according to MDA2, Marcu and Wiktionary;[2][5][1] Wiktionary adds that it can also be analysed within Romanian as sincron with the verb suffix -iza.[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and DLR give as the first record a passage in volume 20 of Mihail Sadoveanu's collected works (Opere), where a piece of work is said to need the “synchronization” of all forces, that is, their joint action at the same time.[2][6] DLR also quotes Sextil Pușcariu on changes of pronunciation caused by careless synchronization of the articulation.[6]

Semantic evolution

The general sense, making several actions or processes happen at the same time, is the oldest.[6][2] The technical senses came with the verb: bringing a synchronous machine into parallel running with an alternating-current network, and in film, matching the picture with the sound or the actors' lips with their speech.[2][4] MDA2 dates the verb sincroniza only from 1954, later than the noun.[2]

Timeline

  • 1954 – the verb sincroniza in the review Viața românească.[2]
  • 1955–1957 – DLRLC defines the noun as arranging two or more movements or phenomena so that they happen at the same time.[7]
  • 1986 – Marcu and Maneca record the film sense, matching the actors' acting with their speech.[4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. synchronization: the act of making two or more actions, events or processes happen at the same time, and its result.[3][2][1]
  2. (electrical engineering) Bringing a synchronous machine into a state where it can run in parallel with an alternating current generator or network.[2]
  3. (film) Matching the picture with the sound; also, the synchronous mounting of the picture track with its sound track.[2][4]
  • sincron
  • sincronism

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 896
  3. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1021
  4. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. sincronizare
  5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. sincroniza
  6. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. sincronizare
  7. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 134
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“Sincronizare.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/sincronizare. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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