financiar

Forms

financiar m or n (feminine singular financiară, masculine plural financiari, feminine/neuter plural financiare)^[1] An old variant is finanțiar.^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French financier, and DEX and MDA2 compare Italian finanziario.^[3][2][1] Scriban and the 1986 neologism dictionary name both French and Italian as sources.^[4][5] The French adjective is a derivative of finance (“money, resources”) with the suffix -ier.^[1] The Italian adjective is recorded from 1790, and finanza came from the same French noun, a derivative of the Old French verb finer (“to pay, bring to an end”).^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is in Titu Maiorescu's parliamentary speeches, in their fourth volume.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The adjective first meant what concerns the organisation of public finances, and widened to anything to do with money and credit.^[3][2] Used as a noun, it named a financier or banker, as in Șăineanu's dictionary of 1929.^[8] In the 1990s the compound financiar-bancar became common in the press.^[9]

Meanings

Adjective

1. financial: relating to the organisation of finances, to the circulation of money and credit; by extension, monetary: Firma are probleme financiare. “The firm has financial problems.”^[3][2]

Noun

1. A specialist in financial operations.^[3][2]
2. A holder of financial capital; a financier, a banker.^[3][2]

Related words

• finanțe
• finanța
• finanțist
• French financier

Usage notes

The i and a are said in two syllables, -ci-ar.^[3] Set phrases include sistem financiar “financial system” and administrație financiară, a government finance office.^[3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 907
3. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 395
4. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 508
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. financiar
6. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. s.v. financiar
8. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 252
9. ^ Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. financiar