paranoic

Forms

paranoic m or n (feminine singular paranoică, masculine plural paranoici, feminine/neuter plural paranoice)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German paranoisch, borrowed from Italian paranoico, as the DEX, Marcu and Wiktionary give it.^[2][3][1] Marcu & Maneca compare German and French paranoïque, while MDA2 and the DLR derive it in Romanian from paranoia with the suffix ⟨-ic⟩.^[4][5][6] The German noun Paranoia is borrowed from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “folly, madness”), from παράνοος (paránoos, “out of one's mind”).^[7][8] The Italian adjective is recorded from 1894.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's and the DLR's first record is in the weekly Contemporanul of 1949, as an adjective.^[5][6]

Semantic evolution

The word names a person who suffers from paranoia and what belongs to the illness; psychiatry uses it in terms such as psihoză paranoică.^[2][4] MDA2 gives paranoid as a synonym.^[5]

Timeline

• 1894 – Italian paranoico.^[9]
• 1949 – paranoic in Contemporanul, the first Romanian record.^[5][6]

Meanings

Noun

1. A person who suffers from paranoia, a paranoiac.^[2][5][1]

Adjective

1. paranoid: suffering from paranoia, or relating to it or to those who have it.^[2][5][1]

Related words

• paranoia
• paranoid

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 773
3. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. paranoic
4. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. paranoic
5. ^ 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, 266
6. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. paranoic
7. ^ Kluge, Friedrich; Seebold, Elmar (2011), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 25th ed., Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, p. 683
8. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier, p. s.v. paranoia
9. ^ a b Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli, p. s.v. paranoia