siripă

Forms

siripă f (uncountable)^[1] A variant siripăț is recorded in the glossary of the folklore journal Șezătoarea; the stress of both forms is not known.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin sināpis (“mustard”), the Latin word for mustard.^[3][2][1] Latin sināpi was borrowed from Ancient Greek σίναπι (sínāpi).^[4][1] The Latin word survives across Romance, for example in Italian senape, French sanve and Catalan sanabre.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The word is a regional plant name, first recorded in Borza's ethnobotanical dictionary of 1968, for the wild mustard.^[3][2]

Timeline

• 1968 – first record, in Borza's ethnobotanical dictionary.^[3][2]

Meanings

Noun

1. (regional, botany) wild mustard, charlock (Sinapis arvensis).^[3][6][1]

Related words

• Latin sināpi

Usage notes

A second regional siripă is a metathesis of risipă “waste”, recorded in Muscel.^[3][2][7] The usual word for mustard is muștar.^[3]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. siripă
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 902
4. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. sināpi
5. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 7933
6. ^ Bulgăr, Gheorghe; Constantinescu-Dobridor, Gheorghe (2002), Dicționar de arhaisme și regionalisme, 2 vols., București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. siripă
7. ^ Rădulescu-Codin, C. (1901), O seamă de cuvinte din Muscel, Câmpulung, p. 67