Combinații eufonice în Dicționarul de rime
Euphonic Combinations in the Dictionary of Rhymes

Summary/Abstract: Mihai Eminescu’s rhyming dictionary, in the view of scholars and especially in the opinion of the publisher Marin Bucur, is not just a lexicographic tool, but a work of profound intellectual, artistic and scientific complexity. Built with a remarkable capacity for synthesis, the dictionary reflects the genius of the Romanian language through an impressive lexical richness, bringing together around 100,000 rhyming words, coming from popular sayings, chronicles, the press, history, geography, but also from the language of science and philosophy. Eminescu organized these words into a rigorous sound structure, based on phonetic and semantic relationships – synonymy, homonymy, antonymy –, preferring multisyllabic rhymes, archaic vocabulary, neologisms and his own creations, in a manner reminiscent of the technique of musical counterpoint. Beyond its practical value, the work acquires an independent artistic and theoretical dimension, representing a working tool, a poetic laboratory and an archive of Eminescu’s cultural and linguistic universe, from which numerous verses of his great poems were born, such as Luceafărul or Scrisoarea III.

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