manager

Forms

manager m (plural manageri)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English manager.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} DN and NODEX name French manager as a second source beside the English word, a case of the multiple etymology of Romanian lexicography.^[6][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is the Academy's dictionary of the contemporary literary language (1955–1957), where the word names a person who travels with a sportsman or a professional team on tour and deals with the money and the organisation of the competitions; the dictionary adds that this is a figure of capitalist countries.^[3][8]

Semantic evolution

The sporting sense came first, and the DLR still defined the word only by it.^[2] The business sense spread in the press in the following decades: Dimitrescu quotes the word for the head of a commercial company or a newspaper in 1993 and 1995, with earlier records from 1982.^[9] DEX 1998 put "a specialist in management" first, and DEX 2009 defines the first sense as the person who runs an economic entity, planning, organising, coordinating its staff and checking its objectives.^[10][4] The sports and arts sense, close to impresar, is now the second.^[4][5]

Timeline

• 1955–1957 – the first dictionary record, in the sporting sense.^[3][8]
• 1982 – an early press record of the word.^[9]
• 1993 – the manager of a newspaper credited with its success, in a press quotation.^[9]
• 1998 – DEX gives “specialist in management” as the first sense.^[10]
• 2009 – DEX defines the first sense as the head of an economic entity.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A manager: a person who runs a company or another economic entity, planning and organising its work, directing its staff and checking its results.^[4][5][1]
2. A person who handles the administrative, financial and organisational affairs of a sportsman, a team or a group of performers; an impresario.^[4][3][6]

Related words

• manager

Usage notes

DEX 2009 stresses the word mánager and allows manáger as well.^[4] MDN and NODEX record an English-like pronunciation with -ne- in the second syllable (NODEX writes it meneger).^[5][7]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. manager
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, 1425
4. ^ 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. 614
5. ^ a b c d Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. manager
6. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. manager
7. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. manager
8. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 11
9. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. manager
10. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 595