televiziune

Forms

televiziune f (plural televiziuni)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French télévision.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The French word was formed in 1900 from télé- and vision;^[6] English and German made similar words a few years later.^[6] Wiktionary ascribes it to Constantin Perskyi, in a paper read at the International Electricity Congress of the Paris World Fair on 25 August 1900.^[1] Romanian dictionaries compare the parts with Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far”) and Latin vīsiō (“seeing”), and in Romanian it reads as tele- with viziune.^[5][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Constantinescu's Enciclopedia invențiunilor tehnice of 1939, for the technique of transmitting moving images at a distance.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

At first a technical term, the word soon named the institution that makes and broadcasts programmes, as in am urmărit la televiziune “I watched on television” (1964).^[4][2] Recent phrases include televiziune digitală or numerică for the digital transmission of sound and image.^[7]

Timeline

• 1939 – the first record, in a technical encyclopedia.^[2][4]
• 1953 – the spread of television as a means of popular culture, in the press.^[4]
• 1964 – la televiziune “on television”, of the broadcaster.^[4]
• 1990s – televiziune digitală “digital television”.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. television: the technique of transmitting images of moving objects at a distance by telecommunications.^[3][2]
2. A broadcaster: the institution that produces and airs television programmes.^[3][2]

Related words

• viziune
• televizor

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1195
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1115
4. ^ 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. televiziune
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. televiziune
6. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
7. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE)