trimite

Forms

Present trimit, third person trimite; past participle trimis; third conjugation.^[1] Variants are trimete, Moldavian tremite, Transylvanian tremete, Banat trămete and the obsolete trămite.^[2][3] The Codicele Voronețean has tremease: „Deaci tremease întru Machiedonia doi de ceia ce slujia lui” “then he sent into Macedonia two of those who served him”.^[4]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin trāmittō (“to send across, convey”), a variant of trānsmittō.^[2][3][1][5] The same Latin verb gave Old Italian tramettere, Old Occitan trametre and Catalan trametre.^[2][5]

It survives in Megleno-Romanian trimet and Istro-Romanian tremetu.^[2][6] The neologism transmite is a doublet, borrowed later.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the Psaltirea Hurmuzaki of the early 16th century, which has tremite (Psalm 143:8).^[3][7] Tiktin's first record is the Psaltirea Scheiană.^[8]

Semantic evolution

The verb has kept the sense “to send someone somewhere”, and is used for sending things, messages and word: a trimite vorbă “to send word”.^[9][8] Tiktin quotes the Bible of 1688: „Și trimise Iacov soli înaintea lui” “and Jacob sent messengers before him” (Genesis 32:3).^[8] With la it means “to refer” a reader to something.^[8] Set phrases are a trimite pe cineva pe cealaltă lume “to kill someone” and a trimite la plimbare “to send packing”.^[9][3] The participle trimis is also a noun, “envoy”.^[2]

Timeline

• c. 1500 – tremite in the Psaltirea Hurmuzaki.^[3][7]
• c. 1563–1583 – tremease in the Codicele Voronețean.^[4]
• 16th century – the Psaltirea Scheiană, Tiktin's first record.^[8]
• 1688 – „Și trimise Iacov soli” in the Bucharest Bible.^[8]

Meanings

Verb

1. To send someone somewhere, to have someone go somewhere.^[9][3][1]
2. To send or dispatch something to someone.^[9][8]
3. To refer someone to something (with la).^[8]

Word family

• trimis
• trimițător
• trimițătură

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e 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. trimite
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1281
4. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. trimite
5. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 8849
6. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română
7. ^ 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 143:8
8. ^ a b c d e f g h Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. trimite
9. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1147