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Forms

veduu m (feminine veduã, masculine plural vedui, feminine plural vedui or vedue)[1]

  • Feminine veduã, masculine plural vedui, feminine plural vedui or vedue.[1][2] Cunia does not accept the spelling veduuã for the feminine.[2]
  • With -v-: veduv and veduvu in Wiktionary and Cunia;[1][2] VEDUV, plural veduyi, feminine veduvă, plural veduve, in Pascu, who quotes the feminine vedua from Boiagi;[3] véduv, -vă in a text Papahagi cites.[4]
  • Other spellings: VÉDUŬ, feminine véduňă, plural véduï, védue, in Papahagi's dictionary;[4] véduv, feminine -ă, in Mihăileanu;[5] văduv, plural -yi, in Dalametra;[6] βέντουου, feminine βέντουᾶ (véduu, véduă), in Nikolaidis's Greek script.[7]
  • Regional forms: v'eduv and v'edov for the widower and v'eduvâ for the widow in Turia.[8]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin viduus (“deprived of a husband or wife”),[4][3][7][1] Wiktionary suggests through a Vulgar Latin form *viduvus.[1] The feminine continues vidua (“widow”).[3]

The word is shared with Romanian văduv, which has a regional form văduu in Transylvania.[9] Pușcariu explains the -v- of the Romanian form from the feminine văduvă.[10] The western cognates are Italian vedovo, French veuf, Spanish viudo and Portuguese viúvo;[9][10] Albanian ve (“widow”) is compared too.[10][7]

De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *wiþowo- and traces it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁ui-dʰh₁-eu-o- (“separated”).[11]

Earliest recorded meaning

The oldest dated record is the feminine vedua in Boiagi's grammar of 1813, as Pascu quotes it.[3]

Semantic evolution

The sense is unchanged from Latin: a man or woman whose spouse has died and who has not married again.[2][4] Pascu records the verbs viduire and nviduire (to become widowed) and the diminutive viduscă.[3]

Timeline

  • 1813 – vedua “widow” in Boiagi's grammar, as Pascu quotes it.[3]
  • 1901 – véduv, -ă in Mihăileanu's dictionary.[5]
  • 1906 – văduv in Dalametra's dictionary.[6]
  • 1909 – véduu, véduă in Nikolaidis's dictionary.[7]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A widower;[2][1][4] (feminine veduã) a widow.[2][1][4]

Adjective

  1. widowed.[1][5]
  • Romanian văduv

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 1084
  3. ^ a b c d e f Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 183
  4. ^ a b c d e f Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1106
  5. ^ a b c Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 533
  6. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 217
  7. ^ a b c d Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 116
  8. ^ Бара, Мариана; Каль, Теде; Соболев, Андрей Н. (2005), Южноарумынский говор села Турия (Малый диалектологический атлас балканских языков, серия монографий 1), p. 355
  9. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
  10. ^ a b c Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter
  11. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill