organizație

Forms

organizație f (plural organizații)^[1] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 spells it organisație and defines it as „felul cu care un corp s-a organisat” “the way in which a body has been organised”.^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German Organisation, borrowed from French organisation and Russian организация (organizacija): the three sources that DEX, MDA2, MDN and DILF name together.^[3][4][5][6] Tiktin and Ciorănescu give French alone, Tiktin adding that it came partly through other languages.^[7][8] NODEX gives German and French.^[9] Wiktionary sees it as equivalent to organiza with the suffix ⟨-ție⟩.^[1]

The German noun was taken from French, and the French one is formed on organiser with the suffix -ation.^[1] Kluge derives the French verb from organe (“tool, organ”), from Latin organum (“tool, instrument”), and Pfeifer traces the Latin word to Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “tool, instrument”).^[10][11] Ciorănescu takes the Romanian verb organiza from French and, earlier, from Modern Greek οργανίζω (organízo).^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's first record is from 1793.^[7] MDA2 cites it first from a report of 1813 on the new schools of the Romanian, Serbian and Greek communities, printed at Buda.^[4] The early sense was the manner in which something is organised, its arrangement: Negulici in 1848 gives that and, figuratively, the constitution of a state.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The older sense “manner of organisation, arrangement” is still the second sense in DEX.^[3] Ghica used it of the organising of war measures.^[12] In the 20th century the word came to mean above all an association of people with common aims, bound by a statute.^[12][4] Under communism organizație de bază was the basic unit of the party and of the Communist Youth Union, with at least three members; the term is now obsolete.^[12][4] Older forms are organizațiune and organizăciune.^[4][7]

Timeline

• 1793 – first record.^[7]
• 1813 – in a report on the schools of the Romanian, Serbian and Greek communities, printed at Buda.^[4]
• 1848 – organisație in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[2]
• 1955–1957 – DLRLC records organizație de bază, the basic unit of the party.^[12]

Meanings

Noun

1. An organization: an association of people with common views or aims, joined under rules or a statute; in law, a body with its own structure, property and legal personality: o organizație internațională.^[3][4][5]
2. (obsolete) organizație de bază: the basic unit of the Romanian Communist Party or the Union of Communist Youth, with at least three members.^[4][6]
3. The way something is organised; arrangement, structure.^[3][4]

Related words

• organiza
• organizare
• organizator
• organ

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c 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. 297
3. ^ a b c d 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 h i 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. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. organizație
6. ^ a b 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. organizație
7. ^ 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. organizáție
8. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. organ
9. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. organizație
10. ^ Kluge, Friedrich; Seebold, Elmar (2011), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 25th ed., Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, p. 673
11. ^ Pfeifer, Wolfgang, et al. (1993), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 2nd ed., Berlin: Akademie-Verlag; digital revised version in the DWDS, dwds.de
12. ^ a b c d Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 282