negozio Italian · revision 38103

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1321, Dante|origins=la ōtium}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /neˈɡɔt.t͡sjo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''negozio''' ''m'' (plural negozi)^(Wiktionary)

+ An older form is ''negocio''.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned word, [[bor|la|negōtium|t=business, occupation]], which Wiktionary calls possibly semi-learned.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary) The Latin noun is formed from [[m|la|nec|t=not]] and [[m|la|ōtium|t=leisure]], literally “lack of leisure”.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary mentions that it may be a calque of [[grc|ἀσχολία|tr=askholía|t=lack of leisure; business]], though a calque would have been expected to give a form with the negative prefix [[m|la|in-]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ Learned forms of the same word are [[fr|négoce]], [[es|negocio]], [[pt|negócio]] and [[ca|negoci]];^(Nocentini 2010)^(Körting 1907) Körting held that it is a learned word everywhere.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Körting 1907) DELI takes [[negoziazione]] to be [[es|negociación]] (1490).^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is Dante, before 1321, in the sense “business, commercial undertaking”: in ''Paradiso'' XI he lists those who live by theft and those by ''civil negozio'', public affairs.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old and Renaissance Italian ''negozio'' meant any business or affair, an activity or occupation, and also a task entrusted to someone, as in Ariosto and Petrarch.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) The sense “premises where goods are sold” is recorded from Lippi, before 1665, and according to DEI the word took the place of ''bottega'' for a shop in the second half of the 19th century.^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|2564) Zingarelli distinguishes ''negozio'' from ''bottega'', now mostly a small shop or a craftsman's workshop.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ In law ''negozio giuridico'' is a legal transaction, an act by which a person regulates their own interests with others.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) In Tuscany the word can also mean any object or contraption, and ''bel negozio!'' is an ironic “a fine business!”.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1294 – Brunetto Latini uses the derivative ''negoziale''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1321 – Dante uses ''negozio'' “business”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1348 – Giovanni Villani uses ''negoziare'' “to trade”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1665 – Lippi uses ''negozio'' for a shop.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Second half of the 19th century – ''Negozio'' replaces ''bottega'' as the usual word for a shop.^(DEI|2564)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shop]], [[m|en|store]]: ''Hanno aperto un negozio di biciclette sotto casa.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A commercial transaction, a [[m|en|deal]]: ''Con quella vendita ha fatto un ottimo negozio.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' A legal transaction (''negozio giuridico'').^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary)'' Activity, occupation.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A task, an errand.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(humorous, Tuscan)'' A thing, a contraption: ''E questo che negozio sarebbe?''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[negoziante]]

+ * [[negoziare]]

+ * [[negoziato]]

+ * [[negoziatore]]

+ * [[negoziazione]]

+ * [[negoziale]]

+ * [[negoziabile]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ozio]]

+ * [[bottega]]

+ * [[la|negōtium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}