producător

Forms

producător m (plural producători, feminine equivalent producătoare)^[1] A rare variant productor occurs in a 19th-century health manual: „el este consumator și nu productor” “he is a consumer and not a producer”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian produce + -ător, modelled on French producteur.^[4][2][2][1] Marcu & Maneca give only the Romanian formation,^[5] while Marcu (2000) names only the French model.^[6] The DLR compares the variant productor with the French word.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Gheorghe Săulescu's Hronologhia și istoria universală (Iași, 1837).^[3]

Semantic evolution

The word was both an adjective, “that causes or gives rise to something”, and a noun, a person who makes goods by his work, set against the consumer.^[4][2] Gherea wrote of causes that were “producătoare” of both optimism and pessimism, and Caragiale of “intellectual producers”.^[2] In the 20th century it also came to name the person or company that finances a film.^[4][3] The compound producător-delegat, the producer's delegate who supervises the making of a film, is recorded from 1974.^[7]

In viticulture, viță producătoare is an ungrafted vine.^[3]

Timeline

• 1837 – the first record, in Săulescu's Hronologhia.^[3]
• 1974 – producător-delegat in film language.^[7]

Meanings

Adjective

1. That produces something or gives rise to something; productive.^[4][3]

Noun

1. A producer: a person or economic unit that makes material goods or scientific or artistic work, as opposed to a consumator.^[4][3][1]
2. A person or company that finances a film.^[4][3]

Related words

• produce
• producție
• productiv
• French producteur

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. producător
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 560
4. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 880
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE)