muzician

Forms

muzician m (plural muzicieni, feminine equivalent muziciană)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French musicien.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} By its form it can also be read as muzică with the suffix ⟨-ian⟩.^[1] The French word is formed from musique (“music”) and -ien.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DLR take the first record from the weekly Contemporanul in 1953: „Oamenii noștri de artă, scriitori, pictori, muzicieni...” “Our artists, writers, painters, musicians...”.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The older word was muzic, which the DLR and MDA2 give as an obsolete synonym.^[4][3] The noun names a person who composes, performs or conducts music, and more broadly one versed in the art of music.^[2][3] Compounds such as muzician-compozitor and muzician-dirijor are recorded in the press of 1974.^[6]

Timeline

• 1953 – muzicieni in Contemporanul, the first record.^[3][4]
• 1974 – muzician-compozitor and muzician-dirijor in the press.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. A musician: a person who composes, performs or conducts music.^[2][3]
2. A person versed in the art of music, a connoisseur of it.^[2][7]

Related words

• muzică
• muzical

Usage notes

The plural is muzicieni and the feminine muziciană; the ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨a⟩ are pronounced in separate syllables, -ci-an.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 687
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 90
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. muzician
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. muzician
6. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. muzician
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. muzician