Termeni astronomici în dicționarul lui Ioan D. Negulici (1848)
Astronomical Terms in the Dictionary of Ioan D. Negulici (1848)

Summary/Abstract: The “Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology in Iași hosts extensive interdisciplinary historical research on Romanian astronomical terminology. The Dictionary of Astronomical Terms: Phenomena, Cosmic Objects and Constellations (DAFOC, letters A-K, first edition 2023, revised edition 2024), initiated and coordinated by Cristina Florescu, is one of the research results, achieved as part of an exploratory research project funded between 2021 and 2023. DAFOC is a historical dictionary, which deals linguistically, in diastraty (popular and scientific), with specialized terms in the field of astronomy. The scientific component of this terminology has a pronounced neological character that manifests itself in different stages of the Romanian language. The Romanian printed lexicography of neologisms debuted in 1848 with The Romanian Vocabulary of all the ancient words accepted so far in the Romanian language, and of all those that are to be accepted from now on, and especially in the sciences, compiled by Ioan D. Negulici. This dictionary includes scientific terms from various fields (medicine, astronomy, politics, etc.). DAFOC records terms with (first) lexicographical attestations from Negulici’s dictionary. First attestations have been recovered for: Balanța ‘the Balance’, boreal (as a standalone adjective, not involved in phrases), and corp ceresc ‘celestial body’, but also lexicographic attestations for terms such as: aberație ‘aberration’, astru ‘star’, echinocțial (in the form echinopțial) ‘equinoctial’. In addition to these, the following are also recorded in the 1848 dictionary: latitudă/latitudine ‘latitude’, Luceafăr ‘morning star’ (s.v. Lucifer), Mercur ‘Mercury’, etc., in total approximately 175 astronomical terms. The Romanian Vocabulary from 1848 represents a consistent lexical source for DAFOC through the variety of forms, the lexicographic confirmation of some neological terms, the antedating of some first attestations, and the lexical novelties.

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