strigăt

Forms

strigăt n (plural strigăte)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian striga + -ăt, from the verb “to shout”.^[2][3][4][1] Tiktin gives the verb as its source.^[5] Scriban compares the suffix in freamăt.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is from 1642, in the sense “call, cry”.^[5] MDA2 and the DLR cite next the Anonymus Caransebesiensis, a Romanian–Latin glossary of about 1650–1700.^[4][2]

Semantic evolution

Beside a loud cry or call, the word came to mean a loud lament, the call of an animal or bird, an uproar of voices, a cry of protest and an announcement made aloud.^[4][3] In Banat strigătul zorilor “the cry of the dawn” is a lament sung after the death of a young man or woman.^[4] In Transylvania and Bukovina strigăte în joc are the rhymes young men shout to the beat of the dance.^[5]

Costinescu distinguished the noun, stressed on the first syllable, from the supine strigat, stressed on the last.^[7]

Timeline

• 1642 – the first record in Tiktin.^[5]
• c. 1650–1700 – in the Anonymus Caransebesiensis glossary.^[4]
• 1870 – in Costinescu's dictionary, with a note on its stress.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A word or sounds uttered in a loud voice; a shout, a cry; an invocation.^[3][4]
2. An announcement or signal given in a loud voice; a command.^[3]
3. The characteristic sound of an animal or bird: strigătul cucuvelei “the owl's call”.^[3][6]
4. An uproar of voices; a cry of protest.^[3]
5. A loud call addressed to someone by name.^[3]
6. A rhyme shouted during a folk dance; a strigătură.^[3]

Related words

• striga
• strigătură
• strigare

Usage notes

A regional variant is strâget.^[4] The plural is strigăte.^[3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. strigăt
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1060
4. ^ 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, 1017
5. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. strigăt
6. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1252
7. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 565