magazzino Italian · revision 39274

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1318–1321, Pisan statute|origins=ar خَزَنَ}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ma.ɡadˈd͡zi.no/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''magazzino''' ''m'' (plural magazzini)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old forms include [[roa-oit|magazeno]], [[roa-oit|magazino]], [[roa-oit|maghazino]], [[roa-oit|magasen]] and [[roa-oit|machazeni]].^(TLIO) The variant [[magazzeno]], recorded from the 16th century, is northern Italian.^(Prati 1951|615)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|ar|مَخَازِن|tr=maḵāzin|t=storehouses]], the plural of [[m|ar|مَخْزَن|tr=maḵzan|t=storehouse]], from the root of [[m|ar|خَزَنَ|tr=ḵazana|t=to store]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary) GRADIT gives the source as a variant form of the singular.^(GRADIT 2003) It appears as [[la-med|magazinus]] at Korčula (Curzola) in 1214, before any Italian record.^(DELI 1999)

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+ [[fr|magasin]] probably comes from Italian, though some French dictionaries derive it from Occitan or directly from Arabic.^(DIFIT)^(Prati 1951|615) [[es|almacén]] and [[pt|armazém]] come from the singular with the article [[m|ar|ال|tr=al-]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(REW 1935) [[scn|magasenu]] was influenced by the Spanish word, and Logudorese has [[sc|camasinu]].^(REW 1935)^(Körting 1907) Prati explains the variant in ⟨-eno⟩ by a change of suffix and rejects a French origin for it.^(Prati 1951|615)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is in the Pisan statutes of 1318–1321, for a building or room where goods and materials are stored and kept;^(TLIO)^(Nocentini 2010) Nocentini dates the word to 1318.^(TLIO)^(Nocentini 2010) DELI's first literary example is in Giovanni Villani, who died in 1348.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Ludovico de Varthema, before 1517, uses ''magazeno'' for the stock of goods a business holds.^(DELI 1999) The keepers of public storehouses, ''magazzinieri'', are mentioned in a Palermo document of 1597, and Florio's dictionary of 1598 has ''magazziniero''.^(DELI 1999) Tommaseo in 1869 records ''magazzino generale'', a public store for goods in transit, glossing it with English “docks”.^(DELI 1999)

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+ The sense “large shop, department store” (''grande magazzino'') came from French ''grand magasin'', as Migliorini noted in 1942.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) In the 18th and 19th centuries ''magazzino'' also rendered English ''magazine'' as the title of illustrated periodicals, a use Migliorini thought needless;^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI|9, 426)^(GRADIT 2003) Giuseppe Baretti writes of publishing pieces “in uno di questi magazzini”.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI|9, 426)^(GRADIT 2003) Technical senses followed: the matrix store of the Linotype, the film magazine of a camera, and a broadcaster's archive of programmes.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ The Italian word passed into Byzantine Greek, the source of [[el|μαγαζί|tr=magazí|t=shop]], and into Ottoman Turkish, the source of [[tr|mağaza]].^(Wiktionary) English ''magazine'' came in the 1580s through French from the Italian word, and DIFIT records the Italian form in English in 1596.^(Etymonline)^(DIFIT)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1214 – Medieval Latin ''magazinus'' is recorded at Korčula.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1318–1321 – First Italian record, in the Pisan statutes.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1348 – Giovanni Villani uses ''magazzino''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1389 – French ''maguesin'' is recorded.^(DIFIT)

+ * Before 1517 – Ludovico de Varthema uses ''magazeno'' for a stock of goods.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1596 – The Italian word appears in English as ''Magizini''.^(DIFIT)

+ * 1597 – A Palermo document mentions public ''magazzinieri''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1803 – ''Magazzinaggio'' “storage charges” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1869 – ''Magazzino generale'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|warehouse]], [[m|en|storeroom]]: a building or room for storing goods and materials: ''Le casse sono nel magazzino dietro il negozio.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # The [[m|en|stock]] of goods held by a shop or firm: ''Domani si fa l'inventario del magazzino.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A great store or heap of something, ''magazzino di erudizione'', a very learned person.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # ''(usually plural)'' ''grande magazzino'': a [[m|en|department store]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(photography, cinema)'' A light-proof [[m|en|magazine]] holding film.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(printing)'' The part of the Linotype that holds the matrices.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(television)'' A broadcaster's archive of programmes whose rights it holds.^(GRADIT 2003)

+ # ''(historical)'' A title of illustrated periodicals of the 18th and 19th centuries.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immagazzinare]]

+ * [[magazziniere]]

+ * [[magazzinaggio]]

+ * [[retromagazzino]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fr|magasin]]

+ * [[es|almacén]]

+ * [[en|magazine]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Fixed phrases include ''fondi di magazzino'', unsold stock, ''magazzini generali'', public warehouses for goods deposited by third parties, and ''magazzino doganale'', a bonded warehouse.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}