organiza

Forms

organiza (third-person singular present organizează, past participle organizat); 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French organiser (“to organize”), one of the French verbs of the 19th century.^[2][3][4][1] The DN compares Italian organizzare as well, and Tiktin allows that the French word also came indirectly.^[5][6] The French verb is from Medieval Latin organizō.^[1]

An older organisi, with the Greek-type ending ⟨-isi⟩, came in the Phanariote period from Modern Greek ὀργανίζω (organízo).^[7][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record, from Ion Budai-Deleanu in 1818, still has the Greek form organisi;^[6][7] Gáldi has that form from 1811.^[6][7] The Lexicon de la Buda (1825) is MDA2's first record of organiza.^[4] A periodical of 1829 has „Au organizat el armia rusască” “he organized the Russian army”.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was political and administrative: to give a state, an army or a school its working order.^[2] Negulici (1848) defined organisare as giving the parts of a body the arrangement they need to work, and “to set in order, arrange”.^[9] The reflexive a se organiza “to get organized” and the sense “to arrange an event”, as in organizing meetings or a ceremony, appear in Ion Ghica and Alecsandri.^[2] The Greek-type organisi and the spelling organisa gave way to organiza.^[4][2]

Timeline

• 1811 – organisi, from Greek, in Gáldi's records of the Phanariote period.^[7]
• 1818 – organisi in Ion Budai-Deleanu.^[6]
• 1825 – organiza in the Lexicon de la Buda.^[4]
• 1829 – „au organizat el armia rusască” in a periodical.^[2]
• 1848 – organisare in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[9]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To organize a group or institution: to make it work as a whole, sharing out and coordinating its tasks by a plan; to arrange the means of a process.^[3][4]
2. (transitive) To prepare an action or event by a plan; to arrange: a organiza un concert.^[4][10]
3. (reflexive) To act methodically and in order; to gather and strengthen one's forces.^[3][4]

Word family

• organizare
• organizator

Related words

• organizație
• reorganiza
• organ

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. organiza
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 750
4. ^ 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, 224
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. organiza
6. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. organiza
7. ^ a b c d Gáldi, Ladislas (1939), Les mots d'origine néo-grecque en roumain à l'époque des Phanariotes, Budapest: Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, p. 216
8. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 223
9. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. organiza
10. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. organiza