studentă

Forms

studentă f (plural studente, masculine equivalent student)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian student + -ă, as the feminine of the masculine noun.^[1][2] Romanian dictionaries list the feminine, plural studente, under the masculine headword.^[3][4][5]

The masculine comes from Italian studente and German Student, and DEX 2009 adds Latin studēns, the present participle of studeō (“to be eager, to study”).^[3][4][6] The neologism dictionaries put German first and compare Italian.^[5][7]

Semantic evolution

The masculine student is recorded from 1829.^[6] Besides a university student, MDA2 records the regional use of student, -ă for a pupil of a secondary school.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A woman or girl who attends a university or another institution of higher education; a female student.^[3][4][1]
2. (regional) A female pupil of a secondary school.^[4]

Related words

• student

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ Wikționar (Romanian Wiktionary), ro.wiktionary.org
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1062
4. ^ 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, 1024
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. student
6. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. student
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. student