planificare

Forms

planificare f (plural planificări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive, from Romanian planifica + -re.^[2][3][4][1] The verb was formed after French planifier, according to DEX, the DLR and Marcu;^[2][5][6][7] Marcu and Maneca also name Russian планировать (planirovatʹ).^[2][5][6][7] Wiktionary analyses the verb as plan with the suffix -ifica, a calque of the French.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The noun and the verb are first recorded in the same issue of the weekly Contemporanul in 1948 (no. 108), in passages that spoke of “the prospect of planning” and of a state that plans the national economy.^[4][3][5]

Semantic evolution

The word spread with the planned economy of the communist years: the organisation of the national economy and of work time according to a plan, and the calculation of the materials and funds an activity needs for a given period.^[4][3] It is also the document that sets out such a plan.^[8] Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words records planificare familială “family planning”, birth control within a family.^[9]

Timeline

• 1948 – planificarea and planifică in Contemporanul, no. 108, the first records.^[4][3]
• 1997 – planificare familială “family planning” recorded among recent words.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. planning: the act of planning and its result; the organisation and direction of an activity according to a plan.^[2][3][8]
2. The calculation of the materials, raw materials and funds needed for an activity over a given period; the inclusion of something in a plan.^[3]
3. A document that sets out such a plan.^[8]
4. planificare familială “family planning”, the control of births in a family.^[9]

Related words

• planifica
• plan

References

1. ^ a b c 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. 827
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, 404
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. planificare
5. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. planifica
6. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. planifica
7. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. planifica
8. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. planificare
9. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE)