magazin

Forms

magazin n (plural magazine)^[1] Older and regional forms are măgăzin, magăzin, magazină and măgăzină, and rarely magațin; the old plural was magazinuri: „Magazinurile cele de provizie, de amuniție” “the stores of provisions and ammunition” (a periodical of 1829).^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French magasin.^[4][3][2][1] Tiktin also names Italian magazzino, and the DN compares it.^[5][6] The French word, first recorded in 1389 in the spelling ⟨maguesin⟩, came either through the Italian one or through Provençal from Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin), the plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storehouse”).^[7][1]

The sense “illustrated periodical” has a separate source: the MDN takes it from the French magazine that Tiktin names, and Scriban and Gabinschi trace it to English magazine.^[8][9][10]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is a document of 1740, in the sense “warehouse”.^[5] In the early 19th century the word still meant a store of grain or goods: Șincai's chronicle orders 100,000 measures of grain gathered “in the stores of Bucharest and Târgoviște”, and Petru Maior tells of being shown the stores, arsenals and workshops where ships were built.^[2] MDA2 dates the word by the 1853 printing of Șincai's chronicle.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The first sense, a storehouse or depot, lived on in the countryside as “granary, barn”, with the regional phrase ține-ți măgăzinul “hold your tongue”.^[2][3] The sense “shop where goods are displayed and sold” appears in Negruzzi and became the main one;^[2][11] Damé (1893) already glosses it magasin, boutique.^[2][11] The sense “illustrated periodical” is in the 19th-century dictionaries of Stamati and Costinescu.^[2] Technical senses followed: the matrix box of a linotype, the plate box of a camera, and the cartridge store of a repeating rifle.^[2][12] Regionally magazin could also mean a ration of food given to a worker, and among raftsmen a pile-up of rafts.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 1740 – first record, in the sense “warehouse”.^[5]
• 1829 – magazinurile cele de provizie “the provision stores” in a periodical.^[2]
• 1853 – Șincai's chronicle is printed, MDA2's dated record.^[3]
• 1893 – Damé glosses it magasin, boutique.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. A shop or store, especially a large one, where goods are displayed and sold.^[4][3][1]
2. An illustrated magazine or periodical with material from many fields, or from one field; also a radio or television magazine programme.^[4][8]
3. (dated or regional) a storehouse or depot; a granary.^[3][2]
4. The magazine of a linotype, the box holding the matrices.^[3][13]

Related words

• magazinaj
• magazie
• înmagazinare
• French magasin

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. magazin
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1415
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 610
5. ^ 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. magazín
6. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. magazin
7. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
8. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. magazin
9. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 765
10. ^ Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera, p. 124
11. ^ a b c Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. vol. 2, s.v. magazin
12. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. magazin
13. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 3