editor

Forms

editor m (plural editori)^[1] A 19th-century quotation in the DLR has editoriu: „Doghiel, editoriul «Codicelui diplomatic al regatului Poloniei»” “Doghiel, the editor of the Diplomatic Codex of the Kingdom of Poland”.^[2] Costinescu's dictionary of 1870 spells it Editorŭ.^[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French éditeur, with Latin editor as a second model, as DEX, MDA2 and Tiktin give it; the DLR puts the Latin word first and adds English editor, while the DN and Wiktionary name French alone.^{[4][5][6][2][7][1]}

The French word is formed of éditer and the suffix -eur.^[1] The Latin noun is formed of ēdō (“to put forth”) and the agent suffix -tor; it meant “one that emits” and “the giver of public games”.^[1][8] Scriban compares the formation of the verb with that of vendō.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1832.^[6] MDA2's first record is in Ion Heliade Rădulescu's translation of Byron's Don Juan (1847), in the sense of the scholar who prepares a text: „nu se știe dacă lacunele acestea se pot atribui editorului” “it is not known whether these gaps can be put down to the editor”.^[5][2]

Semantic evolution

Two senses grew side by side: the scholar who establishes and annotates a text, and the publisher who prints and sells a book.^[5][2] The second is already in a letter of Barițiu of 1845, and Negulici's dictionary of 1848 defines the editor as the one who buys and prints another's writing.^[2][10] Costinescu records editor responsabil, the person under whose responsibility a periodical appears.^[3] MDA2 adds the organiser of games and shows in ancient Rome, the Latin sense.^[5]

In computing the masculine noun names a person who edits programs, and a neuter noun the program or part of a computer that does it.^[11]

Timeline

• 1832 – the first record.^[6]
• 1845 – the sense “publisher”, in a letter of Barițiu.^[2]
• 1847 – the sense “scholar who prepares a text”, in Heliade Rădulescu's Don Juan.^[5][2]
• 1848 – Negulici defines it as the one who buys and prints another's writing.^[10]
• 1870 – editor responsabil in Costinescu's dictionary.^[3]
• 2000 – the computing senses in Marcu's dictionary of neologisms.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. A publisher: a person or company whose business is to publish books, magazines and the like.^[4][11]
2. An editor: a person who establishes and annotates a text for publication, or sees a work through the press.^[5][12]
3. (history) In ancient Rome, the organiser of games and shows.^[5]
4. (computing) A person who edits programs;^[11] (neuter) a program or device that edits programs and texts.^[11]

Related words

• edita
• ediție
• editură
• Latin editor

Usage notes

The feminine is editoare.^[4] The computing sense of the device is a neuter noun.^[11]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. editor
3. ^ a b c Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 1, 371
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 343
5. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 788
6. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. editor
7. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. editor
8. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
9. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 460
10. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. editor
11. ^ a b c d e f Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. editor
12. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 198