versiune

Forms

versiune f (plural versiuni)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French version and Italian versione.^[2][3][4] DEX 2009 and MDN name only the French word.^[5][6] DN compares Latin versiō as well, and Scriban takes it from that Latin word.^[7][8]

The French word was borrowed in 1270 from Medieval Latin versiō, made on versum, the supine of vertō (“to turn; to translate”).^[9] The Italian word has the same Latin source and is recorded from 1729.^[10][11]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is in Heliade Rădulescu's writings, which mention C. Aristia's second version (translation) of the first rhapsodies of the Iliad.^[2][3] Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862 glosses it “version, translation from one language into another”.^[12]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was a translation.^[3][12] Costinescu (1870) also gives the school exercise of translating into one's own language, and the turning of a child in the womb that presents badly at birth.^[13] In French the sense “way of telling a fact” dates from 1674.^[9] Romanian had it by Scriban's time, beside the variant form of a text.^[8][14]

Timeline

• 1862 – in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[12]
• 1870 – Costinescu adds the school exercise and the obstetric sense.^[13]
• 1939 – Scriban records the sense “way of telling a fact”.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. A translation of a literary or scientific work from one language into another: versiune originală, in the original language: Filmul rulează în versiune originală.^[5][2]
2. A version: each of the forms of a text that has been changed, compared with a basic form.^[5]
3. A personal way of presenting or interpreting an event or a fact; an account: Martorii au dat versiuni diferite.^[5][2]
4. (medicine) The turning of the fetus in the womb to make birth easier.^[5][7]

Related words

• retroversiune
• French version

References

1. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1462
3. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. versiune
4. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. versiune
5. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1194
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. versiune
7. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. versiune
8. ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1401
9. ^ a b Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
10. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
11. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
12. ^ a b c Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 777
13. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 691
14. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 647