cazier

Forms

cazier n (plural caziere)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French casier (“set of pigeonholes; criminal record”).^{[2][3][4][5][1]} DELR traces the French word to a medieval Picard casier (“basket”), from Latin cāseārius (“of cheese”), from cāseus (“cheese”), crossed with case (“compartment of a piece of furniture”), which comes from Spanish casa (“square on a chessboard”), properly “house”, from casa.^[2] DHLF dates the Picard word to about 1225 and explains it as a masculine made on Old French chasiere (“basket for drying cheese”).^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR dates the first record to 1927, in the senses of a criminal record and of a cabinet with compartments.^[2] CADE in 1931 has both: a piece of furniture with drawers or pigeonholes for files and sheet music, and cazier judiciar, the notes the courts keep on a person's record.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The furniture sense came first in the dictionaries' order;^[8] DA calls the criminal record a specialised extension of it, a file a court or the police had built up on a person convicted or suspected.^[8] Printers use it for the cabinet that holds the type cases.^[4][5] In current use the phrase cazier judiciar is the main sense, and by extension the word also names the office that keeps these records.^[4][3]

Timeline

• 1927 – the first record.^[2]
• 1931 – the cabinet and cazier judiciar in CADE.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A cabinet with many compartments or drawers for documents and files.^[4][3]
2. (printing) A small cabinet with shelves for the cases of type.^[4][3]
3. (law) In cazier judiciar: a criminal record, the file in which the judicial authorities record a person's convictions.^[4][3]
4. The office that keeps these records.^[4][3]

Usage notes

The ⟨i⟩ and ⟨e⟩ are pronounced in separate syllables: -zi-er.^[4][9]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. cazier
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 315
4. ^ a b c d e f g h DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 155
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. cazier
6. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
7. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. cazier
8. ^ a b Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. cazier
9. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1, 123