stresa

Forms

stresa (third-person singular present stresează, past participle stresat), 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French stresser according to DEX, NODEX, Marcu and Wiktionary.^[2][3][4][1] MDA2 and the DLR derive it instead from the noun stres within Romanian, and Dimitrescu gives both.^[5][6][7] The French verb is formed on stress with -er.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the weekly România literară in 1981, issue 51, for causing trauma to a person through an infectious, surgical or psychological shock.^[5][6]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was medical: to traumatize a person or an organism and bring on physical or mental disorders.^[5] The press of the 1990s uses it for causing stress to people in general, and the reflexive a se stresa means “to get stressed”.^[7][2]

Timeline

• 1981 – in România literară, the first record.^[5][6]
• 1992 – a newspaper uses it of a child who stresses everyone.^[7]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause stres; to upset or disturb the body or mind by stress.^[2][4][1]
2. (transitive) To subject someone to stress, making them anxious.^[2]
3. (medicine) To traumatize an organism by a shock and bring on physical or mental disorders.^[5][6]
4. (reflexive) To get stressed: Nu te mai stresa pentru examen.^[2]

Related words

• stres

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 1059
3. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. stresa
4. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. stresa
5. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1014
6. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. stresá
7. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. stresá