umbratic

Forms

umbratic m or n (feminine singular umbratică, masculine plural umbratici, feminine/neuter plural umbratice)^[1] A variant umbratec is also recorded.^[2][1][3]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian umbră + -atic, from the noun for “shade”.^[1][2][4] Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of umbră and notes that Pușcariu (article 1799) took it straight from Latin umbrāticus (“of the shade”);^[2][1][4] MDA2 also compares the Latin word, and Wiktionary allows it as a possible source.^[2][1][4] Cihac had already set the Romanian word beside the Latin adjective and Italian ombratico.^[5] The Latin adjective is formed from umbra (“shade”) with the suffix -āticus.^[4][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Bobb's Romanian–Latin–Hungarian dictionary of 1822, where it means “shady”.^[1]

Semantic evolution

The word stayed rare and bookish, a synonym of umbros: it is used both of trees and plants that give shade and of places lying in the shade, and occasionally means simply “of shadow”.^[1][3] Barcianu glossed it in 1886 with German schattenspendend (“giving shade”), and Baronzi in 1874 gave it with the synonym as the Romanian for French ombrageux.^[7][8]

Timeline

• 1822 – first recorded, in Bobb's dictionary.^[1]
• 1870 – Cihac lists it under umbră with French ombrageux as its gloss.^[5]
• 1874 – Baronzi gives it as a Romanian equivalent of French ombrageux.^[8]
• 1886 – Barcianu glosses it “giving shade”.^[7]
• 1931 – CADE records it with the variant umbratec in the sense “that gives shade”.^[3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (rare) shady, giving shade; of a place, lying in the shade.^[1][4]
2. (rare) Of shadow.^[1]

Related words

• umbră
• umbros
• umbri
• Latin umbrāticus

References

1. ^ 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, 1367
2. ^ a b c d 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. umbră
3. ^ a b c Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. umbratic
4. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
5. ^ a b Cihac, A. de (1870), Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane I: Éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes, Frankfurt am Main, p. 297
6. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
7. ^ a b Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 670
8. ^ a b Baronzi, George (1874), Vocabular de 2000 termeni, idiotismi, locuțiuni, proverbi, Galați, p. 27