transfera

Forms

transfera (third-person singular present transferă, past participle transferat), first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French transférer (“to transfer”), a neologism of the 19th century.^{[2][3][4][1][5]} The Marcu–Maneca dictionary of neologisms also compares the Latin verb trānsferō (“to carry across”).^[6] The French verb was itself borrowed from Latin in 1355, from trāns- (“across”) and ferō (“to carry”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the Academy dictionary take the first record from Costinescu's Romanian–French vocabulary of 1870, where the verb means to move a person from one place to another, as in moving a prisoner.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

Besides moving a person from one place to another, the verb was soon used in law for passing a right to someone else: Costinescu, Barcianu and Șăineanu already record that sense.^[4][8] In the 20th century it became the usual word for moving an employee from one institution or post to another, as in Sadoveanu's „Doream să fiu transferat undeva lângă Tulcea” “I wished to be transferred somewhere near Tulcea”.^[4][9] Later senses are the passing of energy or heat from one system to another in physics, the move of a sportsman to another club, and the transfer of a sum of money from one account to another.^[4][3][5] The Academy dictionary records an old, rare synonym a perivodi for the transfer of an employee and a traduce for moving a person.^[4]

Timeline

• 1870 – first record, in Costinescu's Romanian–French vocabulary: “to move a person elsewhere”;^[3][4] “to pass on a right”.^[3][4]
• 1929 – Șăineanu gives “to move from one place to another” and, figuratively, “to cede a right”.^[8]
• 1955–1957 – the DLRLC records the transfer of an employee and the passing of energy or heat.^[9]

Meanings

Verb

1. To transfer someone or oneself to another institution or post, without ending the work contract.^[2][3]
2. To move a player, or move oneself, to another sports club or team.^[2][3]
3. To pass a right, a property or an obligation to another person.^[2][3]
4. (physics) To pass energy or heat from one physical or technical system to another.^[2][3]
5. To move a sum of money from one account to another, by bank transfer.^[3][5]

Related words

• transfer

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1137
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1254
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. transfera
5. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
6. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
7. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
8. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 662
9. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne