job

Forms

job n (plural joburi)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English job, an unadapted borrowing pronounced as in English.^[2][3][4][1] The DN gives English and French job as its sources,^[5] and Dimitrescu compares the French word too.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words quotes it from the student weekly ⟨Viața studențească⟩ of 1974, still in quotation marks: American students want to get a “job”, a salaried post, as soon as possible.^[6] MDA2's first record is the third edition of the DN, 1978.^[4]

Semantic evolution

Dimitrescu quotes it from the press of the 1980s to the 2000s, often still in quotation marks; a newspaper of 2010 calls it more elegant and modern than slujbă or serviciu.^[6] DEX 1998 labelled it an anglicism;^[7][2] DEX 2009 has dropped the label.^[7][2] Besides “post, employment”, the dictionaries give the senses of a private or official business deal and of a paid piece of work,^[2][4] and computing uses it for a unit of work.^[3]

Timeline

• 1974 – the first quotation, in ⟨Viața studențească⟩.^[6]
• 1978 – an entry in the third edition of the DN.^[4]
• 1998 – DEX labels it an anglicism.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A job: a slujbă, a post, employment.^[2][8]
2. A private or official business deal.^[2][4]
3. A paid piece of work.^[4][3]
4. (computing) A unit of work made of one or more steps.^[3][8]

Usage notes

The plural is joburi.^[2] The word is pronounced /d͡ʒob/, and also /ʒob/.^[2][1]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. 566
3. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. job
4. ^ 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, 1286
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. job
6. ^ a b c d Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. job
7. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 548
8. ^ a b Dima, Eugenia (coord.) (2007), Dicționar explicativ ilustrat al limbii române, Chișinău: Arc / Gunivas, p. s.v. job