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Etymology and origin of the Romanian word monitoriza

Confidence
Established
Formation
Derivation
First attested
1988 the supplement to DEX More words from the 20th century
Ultimate origins
French moniteurRomanian -iza
Etymology tree
inherited borrowed derived
Romanian monitor
Romanian monitoriza

Forms

monitoriza (third-person singular present monitorizează, past participle monitorizat), 1st conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian monitor + -iza, after English monitor (“to monitor”).[2][3][4][1] The base is the noun in the sense of a screen or other device for watching a process.[2][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is the 1988 supplement to DEX, with the sense “to watch by means of a monitor or another special device”.[3]

Semantic evolution

In the press of the 1990s the verb widened to “to follow closely, to keep under observation”, said of newspapers read daily or of a minister's people, and was also used for chairing a discussion.[6] MDA2 records a political sense: to oversee a field of activity in another country through experts sent by the bodies of the European Community.[3]

Timeline

  • 1988 – first record, in the supplement to DEX.[3]
  • 1992 – “to chair (a discussion)” in the weekly 22.[6]
  • 1993 – “to follow closely” in România liberă.[6]

Meanings

Verb

  1. (transitive) To monitor, to watch by means of a monitor or another special device.[2][3]
  2. (transitive) To follow closely, to keep under observation.[6]
  3. (transitive) To coordinate or moderate a discussion.[6]
  4. (politics) To oversee a field of activity in another country through experts sent by the European Community.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 669
  3. ^ 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. 2, 49
  4. ^ 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. s.v. monitoriza
  5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. monitoriza
  6. ^ a b c d e Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. monitorizá
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“Monitoriza.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/monitoriza. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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