poșetă

Forms

poșetă f (plural poșete)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French pochette, a word of the French neologisms of the modern period.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The French word continues Old French pochete (“small purse, small bag”), a diminutive with the suffix -ete of puche (“purse, bag”), which comes from Frankish *pokō (“pouch, bag”) and ultimately Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag, pouch”).^[1] The English word pocket goes back to a northern variant of the same Old French word.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 dates the first record to 1929, in Otilia Cazimir's prose collection Grădina cu amintiri, with the sense “lady's handbag”.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The word has always named a small bag carried by women, in which they keep money, papers and small toilet articles.^[6][4] Ciorănescu glosses it simply as a lady's bag.^[2] A second, technical sense belongs to stamp collecting: a small envelope of transparent material in which unused stamps are mounted in an album.^[7][3] The noun poșetar “maker of handbags”, a rare word formed with the suffix -ar, is recorded in 1961.^[8]

Timeline

• 1929 – first record, in Otilia Cazimir's Grădina cu amintiri.^[3]
• 1955–1957 – the DLRLC defines the handbag sense with quotations from Camil Petrescu and Sebastian.^[6]
• 1961 – poșetar “handbag maker”.^[8]
• 1986 – the philatelic sense “transparent envelope for stamps” in the dictionary of neologisms.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A small handbag of leather, plastic or other material in which a woman carries money, papers and toilet articles: Și-a scos cheile din poșetă.^[4][3][1]
2. (philately) A small transparent envelope in which unused stamps are mounted in an album.^[7][5]

Word family

• poșetar

Related words

• French pochette

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. poșetă
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 484
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 855
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. poșetă
6. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 516
7. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. poșetă
8. ^ a b Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. poșetar