trusă

Forms

trusă f (plural truse)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French trousse.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The French noun continues Old French trousse, also spelled trosse and torse, which goes with the verb trousser.^[1] Graur traces it to Vulgar Latin *torsus, a form used in place of Latin tortus, the past participle of torqueō (“to twist”); the Romanian words toarce and întoarce come from the same Latin verb.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The DLR's earliest reference is the CADE dictionary of 1931.^[5] The first literary record is in Rebreanu's Răscoala (1932), in the sense “travelling case”: „Își aşezase trusa de voiaj pe mescioara de la fereastra compartimentului” “he had put his travelling case on the little table by the compartment window”.^[5][4]

Semantic evolution

Scriban described it in 1939 as a bag or box holding the instruments a doctor, engineer, craftsman or traveller needs, with trusă de chirurgie “surgical kit” and trusă de călătorie “travelling case”.^[7] From the container the word passed to its contents, the set of instruments or objects it holds.^[2][4] Later quotations in the DLR show a fishing kit and a medical kit.^[5]

Timeline

• 1931 – in the CADE dictionary, the earliest reference in the DLR.^[5]
• 1932 – trusa de voiaj in Rebreanu's Răscoala, MDA2's first record.^[4][5]
• 1939 – Scriban's dictionary, with surgical and travelling cases.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A case or box made to hold the instruments or objects needed in a profession or for one's toilet: o trusă de prim ajutor “a first-aid kit”.^[2][4]
2. The set of instruments or objects in such a case; a kit.^[2][4]

Related words

• trusou
• toarce
• întoarce
• French trousse

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1151
3. ^ 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. trusă
4. ^ 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, 1292
5. ^ 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. trusă
6. ^ Graur, Alexandru (1980), Cuvinte înrudite, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
7. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1352