tradiție

Forms

tradiție f (plural tradiții)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French tradition and also from Latin trāditiō (“a handing over; tradition”).^[2][3][4][1] Ciorănescu and DEX give only French.^[5][6] Tiktin sees a learned Latin word, partly through other languages, and the DN adds Italian tradizione.^[7][8] The older form tradițiune follows the Latin stem.^[6][7]

The Latin noun is formed on trādō (“to hand over”) with -tiō.^[9] French borrowed it in 1268.^[10]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1783, in a text by Șincai.^[7] Negulici's glossary of 1848 defines it as a thing or story handed down from age to age by word of mouth.^[11]

Semantic evolution

Tiktin records an old sense from Latin, “handing over, surrender”, beside the usual one.^[7] The sense of stories passed down orally comes first in the dictionaries;^[11] Negruzzi wrote that the chroniclers Ureche and Miron worked mostly from traditions.^[11][7] Modern dictionaries put first the wider sense of a body of customs and beliefs handed down in a community, and a custom or usage.^[6][3] MDA2 lists the old synonyms paradosis and trădanie.^[2]

French also gave Romanian the derivatives tradițional, tradiționalism and tradiționalist.^[5]

Timeline

• 1783 – the first record, in a text by Șincai.^[7]
• 1848 – in Negulici's glossary of neologisms.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. The body of ideas, customs and beliefs that a social or national group hands down from generation to generation, mostly by word of mouth, and that marks it out.^[6][2]
2. A custom, a usage; an established practice.^[6][4]
3. Information, real or legendary, about past events, passed down orally.^[6][2]

Word family

• tradițional
• tradiționalism
• tradiționalist

Related words

• Latin trāditiō

Usage notes

The older forms tradițiune and trădiciune are obsolete.^[2][6]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 1248
3. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
4. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional
5. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. tradiție
6. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1135
7. ^ a b c d e f Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. tradiție
8. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
10. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
11. ^ a b c d Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. tradiție