bancar

Forms

bancar m or n (feminine singular bancară, masculine plural bancari, feminine/neuter plural bancare)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Italian bancario.^[2][3][4][1] It is also borrowed from French bancaire.^[2][3][4][1] Some dictionaries name only the Italian word,^[5][6] and Scriban derived it from bancă “bank”.^[7] The Italian and French adjectives are formed on banca and banque with suffixes that continue Latin -ārius.^[8] The Italian noun, in its sense “credit institution”, grew out of banco, the long wooden table of the money changers and lenders, and the French noun spread the word to the other European languages.^[9] Gabinschi traces the Italian word to Lombardic banka (“bench”).^[8] The Italian adjective is recorded from before 1566.^[10]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR dates the first record to 1877, in the glossary of Laurian and Massim's Latinist dictionary, with the sense “of a bank, relating to banks”.^[11] The agent noun bancher “banker” is much older, recorded from 1785.^[11]

Semantic evolution

The adjective has kept its one sense, “belonging or relating to a bank”, and is used in many fixed terms of finance: capital bancar, cont bancar, credit bancar, depozit bancar.^[12][4] In sports journalism from the late 1990s on, bancarii is the nickname of the players of the Bucharest football club FC Național, formerly Progresul, and bancar describes that team.^[13]

Timeline

• before 1566 – Italian bancario “of a bank”.^[10]
• 1785 – bancher “banker”.^[11]
• 1877 – bancar “of a bank” in Laurian and Massim's glossary.^[11]
• 1931 – recorded in the CADE as a borrowing from Italian.^[5]
• 1998 – bancarii, the players of FC Național, in the sports press.^[13]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Belonging or relating to a bank, specific to banks: operațiuni bancare “banking operations”, capital bancar “bank capital” lent at interest.^[2][12][4]
2. (sports, journalism) Relating to the football club FC Național; as a noun, a player of that club.^[13]

Related words

• bancă
• bancher
• Italian bancario

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 88
3. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 162
4. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. bancar
5. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. bancar
6. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 66
7. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 149
8. ^ a b Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera, p. 68
9. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
10. ^ a b Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
11. ^ a b c d 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. bancă
12. ^ a b Dima, Eugenia (coord.) (2007), Dicționar explicativ ilustrat al limbii române, Chișinău: Arc / Gunivas, p. s.v. bancar
13. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. bancar