Glossary of Eighteenth-Century Greco-Romanian Philological and Textual Exchanges

To despair — To completely lose hope, to despair, or to fall into a state of profound hopelessness; to let oneself be overwhelmed by life's difficulties without seeing a way out. It is a historical lexical borrowing, used especially in texts from the Phanariot era and in early ecclesiastical translations.
To consume — To consume, spend, or waste specific resources, carrying the primary and historical meaning of consuming gunpowder during shootings or military activities. In an extended or regional contextual sense, the term describes the completion or structural depletion of stocks of combustible materials or ammunition through repeated use.
To arrest — To arrest, detain, or legally deprive someone of liberty through physical constraint; to place a suspect or debtor under guard. In structural historical linguistics, it represents a hybrid verbal variant occasionally used in the western and northern Romanian dialects, formed by applying the conjugation suffix '-ui' to the neological root of the noun 'arest'.
To plaster with clay — To plaster, coat, or cover a surface (the walls of a traditional house, an oven, or a woven fence) with a wet layer of clay, loam, or greasy clay mixed with chaff or straw. In structural historical linguistics, it represents a rare verbal form derived directly from the noun 'clay' (argilă), used occasionally in rural communities to describe domestic thermal insulation techniques.
Silvery variant — A rare regional or archaic term used as an adjective to describe an object made of silver or exhibiting a bright, clean, white silver-like luster; silvery. As a local ethnonym or toponymic noun in the past, it could designate a person originating from a settlement or estate named Arginți or an area known for precious metal working, preserved in old parish ledgers.
Astrology — An archaic variant (of Slavic-Greek type, used before the 19th century) for the term 'astrology'; a pseudoscience or divinatory craft claiming that human destinies and earthly events are determined by the movements and positions of celestial bodies. In old Romanian manuscripts, the term designated both the interpretation of zodiac signs and the rudimentary astronomical calculations with which it was historically confused.
Astronomical — An archaic and obsolete adjectival form (showing Slavic-Byzantine influence) for the term 'astronomical'; relating to astronomy or the study of celestial bodies. This word is found primarily in 17th and 18th-century Romanian manuscripts, early historical chronicles, and old popular books of culture or cosmography, prior to the modernization and French-based uniformization of the national scientific vocabulary.