solicita

Forms

solicita (third-person singular present solicită, past participle solicitat, third-person subjunctive solicite) first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French solliciter, with Latin sollicitō (“to stir, disturb, urge”) as a second model, as DEX, MDA2 and the DLR give it.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} French took the verb from Latin in 1332.^[6] The Latin verb is from sollicitus (“wholly moved; troubled”), whose first part is sollus (“whole”) and whose second is the past participle of cieō (“to set in motion”).^[6] The same Latin verb gave the inherited French soucier (“to worry”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in a calendar printed in 1794, in the sense “to ask someone for something”.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

In the first half of the 19th century Golescu and Asachi use it, and Negulici's dictionary of neologisms (1848) defines it as “to insist, to ask insistently”.^[4][7] Later it gained the sense “to arouse, attract (attention)”, and in engineering “to subject a body to stress”.^[2][8] The present tense is solicit, also stressed solicít in familiar speech;^[3][2] solicitez is rare.^[3][2]

Timeline

• 1794 – first record, in a calendar.^[3][4]
• 1848 – listed by Negulici among the neologisms.^[7]

Meanings

Verb

1. To request, ask for something insistently; to address a request to someone.^[2][3][1]
2. To ask, appeal to, invite someone.^[2]
3. To arouse, attract (attention, interest).^[2][5]
4. (engineering) To subject a body to a physical action, such as tension, torsion or pressure, that would break it beyond a certain value; to stress.^[2]

Word family

• solicitant

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1031
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 928
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. solicita
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. solicita
6. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. solliciter
7. ^ 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. solicita
8. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. solicita