Școala Ardeleană și latinitatea „altfel” a limbii române. Substantivul
The Transylvanian School and the “Different” Latinity of the Romanian Language

Summary/Abstract: The members of the Transylvanian School were the first to write works on the language norm (grammar books, dictionaries, glossaries), using them to argue in favor of the Latin character of Romanian, as this was their main goal, to prove the Latinity of Romanian language. Our work aims to emphasize the idea of how they present Romanian lexicon in front of local as well as foreign educated audiences, well acquainted with Latin, proves to be a fair point of view, and it makes the difference between the etymology of a Romanian term and its semantic equivalent in Latin. In doing so, the present work employs examples from Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae, Samuil Micu and Gheorghe Șincai (Viena 1780), Gheorghe Șincai (Viena 1805), from Grammatica daco-romana sive valachica, Ioan Alexi (Viena, 1826) and from Lexicon valachico-latino-hungarico-germanicum (Buda 1825). Our main argument states that a series of Romanian words of Latin origin do not receive, as equivalent, their Latin etymon but rather their respective correspondent from classic Latin. Therefore, the direct relationship between Romanian and Latin is overlooked by the reader. Taking into consideration as much cases as possible, we notice that in doing so the philologists from Transylvania have indirectly emphasized the Latinity of Romanian language, as well as its closeness to Romance languages, based on some lexical and semantical mutual developments, and on Romanian’s particularity as compared to both Romance languages, and Latin.

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