temoare

Forms

temoare f (plural temori)^[1]

Etymology

Tiktin, Scriban and Wiktionary take it as inherited from Latin timor (“fear”) (accusative timōrem), and the REW lists Aromanian temoare beside Italian timore, Occitan temor and Portuguese temor as continuations of the Latin noun.^[2][3][1][4] The Academy's DLR and MDA2 instead derive it within the language: from Romanian teme + -oare, only comparing the Latin word.^[5][6] The Latin noun is formed on timeō (“to fear”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The only old record is the Psaltirea Scheiană of about 1573–1578, Psalm 67: „Acie Veniamin giurelu în temoare” “there is little Benjamin in fear”, translating Slavonic vŭ užasě.^[2][8][5] The other psalters have tremure (Coresi) and other words, and the Bible of 1688 has spământare.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

The word meant “fear, dread” and did not outlive the 16th-century text; the dictionaries list it only as obsolete, a synonym of teamă.^[6][5][9]

Timeline

• c. 1573–1578 – temoare in the Psaltirea Scheiană, Psalm 67, the only record.^[2][6][8]
• 1916 – Candrea's glossary of the Psaltirea Scheiană lists it as “fear, dread”.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. (obsolete) fear, dread.^[6][5][1]

Related words

• teamă
• teme
• Latin timor

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. temoare
3. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1309
4. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 8738
5. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. temoare
6. ^ 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, 1197
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
8. ^ a b Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 67:29
9. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A. (1916), Psaltirea Scheiană comparată cu celelalte psaltiri din sec. XVI și XVII traduse din slavonește, vol. II: Glosarele, București: Socec, p. 394