profesionist

Forms

profesionist m or n (feminine singular profesionistă, masculine plural profesioniști, feminine/neuter plural profesioniste)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German Professionist according to DEX 2009, Marcu and Scriban.^[2][3][4][1] Tiktin gives Italian professionista as the source, Marcu and Maneca compare both, and the DLR and MDA2 add Medieval Latin professionista.^[5][6][7][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is the Fundamentalnice legi, the laws of the Military Frontier printed at Buda in 1808, where merchants and profesioniștii pay dues from their trade.^[8][7][5] There it means a tradesman or craftsman; a later text in the DLR explains profesionist as “a man of a craft”.^[7]

Semantic evolution

Tiktin glosses it “tradesman, specialist” and records liber profesionist “self-employed professional”.^[5] Scriban defines it as one who has a profession, as opposed to the amateur.^[4] Marcu and Maneca extend it to the paid practice of an art or a sport.^[6] Marcu also records the feminine profesionistă as a euphemism for a prostitute.^[3]

Timeline

• 1808 – in the Fundamentalnice legi printed at Buda, the first record.^[8][5]
• 1939 – Scriban defines it in contrast to the amateur.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A professional: a person who works in a field on the basis of proper training.^[2][8]
2. A person who practises an art or a sport for pay.^[6]

Adjective

1. Working in a field on the basis of proper training; done by people of the profession.^[2][8]

Related words

• profesie
• profesional

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 881
3. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. profesionist
4. ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1059
5. ^ 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. profesionist
6. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. profesionist
7. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. profesionist
8. ^ 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, 561