weekend

Forms

weekend n (plural weekenduri)^[1] The DLR, MDA2, DN, MDN, NODEX and DEX 1998 have the hyphenated spelling week-end as their headword;^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} DEX 2009 has weekend and gives week-end as a second spelling.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} The plural is weekenduri, also written week-end-uri; the pronunciation given is úichend.^[7][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English weekend, an unadapted loan.^[1][7] DEX 2009 and DEX 1998 call it simply an English word;^{[7][6][4][5][2][3][8]} DN labels it an anglicism, and DN, MDN, the DLR, MDA2 and DEXI take it from the English word.^{[7][6][4][5][2][3][8]} Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words also calls it an anglicism and refers to Rodica Zafiu's discussion of 2005.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the magazine Cinema of 1970 (no. 6, p. 21): „realitatea weekend-ului și a săptămânii lucrătoare” “the reality of the weekend and of the working week”.^[2][3][1]

Semantic evolution

The DLR's next quotations are from the sports paper Sportul of 1972, on Bucharest pupils going to the mountains at the weekend; the next is from Cinema of 1973.^[2] Dimitrescu quotes it from the press of 1974 on, about trips home and road conditions at the weekend, and again in 1983, 2009 and 2010.^[9] MDA2 distinguishes the end of the week itself from the free time at the end of the week used for rest.^[3]

Timeline

• 1970 – the first record, in the magazine Cinema.^[2][3]
• 1972 – în week-end in Sportul.^[2]
• 1974 – press quotations collected by Dimitrescu.^[9]
• 1986 – DN labels week-end an anglicism.^[4]
• 2009 – DEX 2009 enters it as weekend.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. The end of the week, Saturday and Sunday, meant for rest.^[7][3]
2. The free time at the end of the week, used for rest or entertainment.^[3][4][8]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. week-end
3. ^ 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, 1523
4. ^ a b c d e f Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. week-end
5. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. week-end
6. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1174
7. ^ a b c d e f g h DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1211
8. ^ a b c Dima, Eugenia (coord.) (2007), Dicționar explicativ ilustrat al limbii române, Chișinău: Arc / Gunivas, p. s.v. weekend
9. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. week-end