jurnalist

Forms

jurnalist m (plural jurnaliști, feminine equivalent jurnalistă)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French journaliste, one of the French neologisms of the 19th century.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The French word is formed on journal with the suffix -iste.^[1] Within Romanian it lines up with jurnal, borrowed from French earlier and recorded from 1787, and the suffix -ist.^[1][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is in Russo, without a date.^[3] Antonescu's French dictionary of 1875 has jurnalistu for journaliste.^[8]

Semantic evolution

The word has meant a writer for a newspaper from the start, alongside the synonyms ziarist and gazetar.^[2][9][10] Damé quotes it in the 1890s of the leading journalists of Transylvania.^[11] It also named a newspaper seller, a sense now old or rare.^[3][4][12] In 1955 the DLRLC marked even the main sense rare, but NODEX in 2002 defines it as a practitioner of journalism.^[12][13]

Timeline

• 1787 – the base jurnal is first recorded.^[7]
• 1875 – jurnalistu in Antonescu's dictionary.^[8]
• 1886 – Barcianu glosses it with German Zeitungschreiber.^[10]
• 1893–1895 – Damé's dictionary.^[11]
• 1955–1957 – the DLRLC marks it rare and records the sense “newspaper seller”.^[12]

Meanings

Noun

1. A journalist, someone who writes for or edits a newspaper or practises journalism; ziarist, gazetar.^[2][13][3]
2. (rare) A newspaper seller.^[2][4]

Related words

• jurnal
• jurnalistică

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 570
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1295
4. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. jurnalist
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. jurnalist
6. ^ Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. 1
7. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. jurnál
8. ^ a b Antonescu, G. M. (1875), Dictionariu romanu-francesu, Bucuresci: Typografia Curții (Lucrători Associați), p. 158
9. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 721
10. ^ a b Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 335
11. ^ a b Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. 1
12. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 712
13. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. jurnalist