trabuc

Forms

trabuc n (plural trabucuri)^[1] An older variant is trabuco, which Caragiale uses: „mirosea a trabuco popular”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German Trabuko (“cigar”), short for Trabukozigarre.^[4][5][3][1] MDA2, the DLR and NODEX give a second source: borrowed from Italian trabuco.^[3][2][6] The German word comes from Spanish trabuco.^[1][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The earliest record cited by MDA2 and the DLR is in Caragiale's writings, in the old form trabuco, describing a smell of lignite soot mixed with cheap cigar smoke.^[3][2]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept one sense, a cigar.^[4][8] Șăineanu's dictionary and the CADE already list it, and the novelists of the 20th century use it often: C. Petrescu, Arghezi, Stancu, Vinea.^[2] Pas used it figuratively for a Zeppelin airship in the night sky.^[2]

Timeline

• 1931 – trabuc in the CADE dictionary.^[2]
• 1955–1957 – trabuc “cigar” in the DLRLC.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. cigar: a roll of tobacco leaves for smoking.^[4][8][1]

Related words

• havană

Usage notes

The usual plural is trabucuri.^[4][3]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. trabuc
3. ^ 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, 1247
4. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1134
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. trabuc
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. trabuc
7. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. trabuc
8. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 463