sosire

Forms

sosire f (plural sosiri)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of sosi “to arrive”, formed from Romanian sosi + -re, and names the action of arriving.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The verb itself comes from Modern Greek σώσω (sóso), the future of σώνω (sóno);^[1][3] MDA2 names the aorist ἔσωσα (ésosa), and Ciorănescu compares Albanian sos and Bulgarian соса (sosa).^[2][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and DLR give as the first record a text of before 1631, in which sosirea lui Mihai “the arrival of Mihai” filled the Hungarians with fear.^[2][5] The sense is already the modern one: someone's coming to a place.^[5]

Semantic evolution

DLR and MDA2 sort the uses of the noun into an approach towards someone or something, a sudden appearance in a place, and the reaching of a place at the end of a journey; figuratively it can mean a birth, and it is also used of the beginning of a season, a period or an event.^[2][5] In the 17th-century Slavonic–Romanian lexicons, the form sosirea renders Slavonic ѡнаставаний.^[7] Tiktin glosses the word as German Ankunft and Eintreffen.^[4] The Lexicon de la Buda of 1825 gives it with Latin adventus, Hungarian megérkezés and German Ankunft.^[8] In sport it has come to mean the finish, the place where a competitor ends the race.^[3][9]

Timeline

• before 1631 – sosirea lui Mihai “Mihai's arrival”, the first record.^[2][5]
• 1678 – sosirea in a Slavonic–Romanian lexicon.^[7]
• 1703 – Tiktin's first dated record.^[4]
• 1825 – the Lexicon de la Buda glosses it as Latin adventus.^[8]
• 1980 – Breban records the sporting sense “finish line”.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. arrival: the act or fact of arriving somewhere; coming, reaching a place.^[3][2][1]
2. The beginning of a season, a period or an event.^[2]
3. (sports) The finish: the place or line where a competitor ends a race.^[3][9]

Related words

• sosit
• venire
• ajungere

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 937
3. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 1035
4. ^ 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. sosíre
5. ^ 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. sosire
6. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. sosi
7. ^ a b Ungureanu, Mădălina; Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Moruz, Alexandru (eds.), eRomLex: The First Romanian Bilingual Dictionaries (17th century), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. s.v. sosirea
8. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 658
9. ^ a b c Breban, Vasile (1980), Dicționar al limbii române contemporane de uz curent, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. 563