tranzacție

Forms

tranzacție f (plural tranzacții)^[1] The 19th century spelled it transacție: the first record, of 1829, speaks of „transacțiile sau punerile în lucrare după tractatul de Londra” “the transactions or implementations under the Treaty of London”.^[2][3] An older variant tranzacțiune (transacțiune) was in use until the early 20th century: „Până la 1572 nu găsim, asupra tranzacțiunilor în interiorul țării, nici un document” “before 1572 we find no document on the transactions inside the country” (Hasdeu).^[2][4] A rare variant transecție is recorded in a document of 1842.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French transaction.^[4][3][2][1] DEX, MDA2 and the DLR name the Latin noun trānsāctiō as a second source, and Wiktionary names French alone.^[4][3][2][1] Marcu's dictionary of neologisms also names English transaction.^[5]

The French word, recorded in 1281, was taken from the Late Latin noun, which meant “a finishing, completion”, a legal term formed on the supine of trānsigō (“to settle, finish”).^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DLR date the first record to 1829, in a Romanian periodical, where it means the dealings of a government under the Treaty of London.^[3][2]

Semantic evolution

Negulici's dictionary of 1848 defines it as the act by which a disagreement is settled, an agreement.^[7] This legal sense, a settlement in which the parties end or prevent a dispute by mutual concessions, is MDA2's second sense.^[3] The commercial sense, a deal by which goods or rights change hands, is in the DLR's quotations from Russo, Hasdeu and Rebreanu.^[2] In French the economic sense dates from 1826 and the general “arrangement, compromise” from 1810, often with a disapproving tone.^[6] Romanian has that tone too: Russo wrote of political “transactions and betrayals” that changed day by day.^[8] The press of the 2000s formed tranzacție-record “record deal”.^[9]

Timeline

• 1829 – transacțiile in a periodical, the first record.^[3][2]
• 1842 – the variant transecție in a document.^[2]
• 1848 – transacție “settlement of a disagreement” in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[7]
• 2007 – tranzacție-record “record deal” in the press.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. A transaction: an agreement between two or more parties by which rights are transferred or a commercial or banking exchange is made.^[4][3][5][1]
2. (law) A settlement: an agreement by which the parties end or prevent a dispute by mutual concessions.^[3][2]
3. (by extension) An understanding, învoială, deal.^[4][10]

Related words

• tranzacționa
• French transaction

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. tranzacție
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1259
4. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1139
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. tranzacție
6. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
7. ^ a b 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
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 476
9. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. tranzácție
10. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. tranzacție