alergic

Forms

alergic m or n (feminine singular alergică, masculine plural alergici, feminine/neuter plural alergice)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French allergique.^{[2][3][4][5][6][1]} That adjective is formed from French allergie + -ique; in Romanian terms it can be analysed as alergie with -ic.^[1]

French allergie was borrowed in 1909 from German Allergie, a term made in 1906 by the Austrian paediatrician Clemens von Pirquet from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) and ἔργον (érgon, “work, action”).^[2][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR dates the first record to 1957, the same year as alergen; the noun alergie itself is recorded from 1930.^[2] MDA2 takes its first record only from DEX 1998.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The adjective means relating to or caused by an allergy, and, used as a noun, a person who has an allergy.^[4][3] Its medical family grew in the 1960s: alergologic (1961), alergologie (1964) and alergolog (1965).^[2]

Timeline

• 1930 – the noun alergie.^[2]
• 1957 – first record of alergic, with alergen.^[2]
• 1961 – alergologic.^[2]
• 1964 – alergologie.^[2]
• 1965 – alergolog.^[2]

Meanings

Adjective

1. allergic: of an allergy, typical of or relating to an allergy.^[4][3][1]

Noun

1. A person who has an allergy.^[4][3][5]

Related words

• alergie
• alergen
• alergolog

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. alergie
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 40
4. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 27
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert