sutien

Forms

sutien n (plural sutiene)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French soutien, short for soutien-gorge (“bra”).^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Wiktionary gives the simple French noun as the source.^[1] The French compound joins the noun for “support” and gorge (“bosom”), and is first recorded in 1904.^[7] The simple noun is itself a deverbal noun of soutenir (“to hold up”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DLR give as the first record Iorgu Iordan's Limba română contemporană of 1956, with the sense “bra”.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept the single sense it was borrowed with.^[3][6] Its synonyms are the neologism brasieră and the popular țâțar.^[2][6]

Timeline

• 1956 – first record, in Iorgu Iordan's Limba română contemporană.^[2][6]
• 1965 – quoted from the magazine Cinema in the DLR.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. bra, brassiere: a piece of women's underwear that supports the breasts.^[3][1][4]

Related words

• brasieră

Usage notes

The plural is sutiene; the DN also gives sutienuri.^[3][4] The -ti-en is pronounced as two syllables.^[3]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1079
3. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1081
4. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
6. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. sutien
7. ^ Trésor de la langue française informatisé (2004), ATILF – CNRS & Université de Lorraine, atilf.fr/tlfi; electronic version of Imbs, Paul; Quemada, Bernard, eds. (1971–1994), Trésor de la langue française, Paris: CNRS / Gallimard