proprietar

Forms

proprietar m (plural proprietari, feminine equivalent proprietară)^[1] An older form proprietariu appears in 1829: „La numitul proprietariu să pot cumpăra foarte ieftin berbeci” “from the said owner rams can be bought very cheaply”.^[2] MDA2 lists the regional variants propietar, propitar, poprietar and proprieter.^[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French propriétaire, also Latin proprietārius (“owner”): DEX 2009, DN and MDN name both, DLR and MDA2 Latin first, Scriban Latin alone, Wiktionary French alone.^{[4][5][6][2][3][7][1]} Tiktin names New Latin and Italian proprietario.^[8] The Latin noun, a post-classical legal term for an owner, is formed proprietās (“ownership”) and -ārius; the French word is a learned borrowing from it.^[9][10][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's and DLR's first record is a text of 1816 that Tiktin cites as Maior's Învățătură: it speaks of feeding and watering animals with the consent of their owners.^[8][2][3]

Semantic evolution

In the 1830s and 1840s the word is used of the owners of estates, gardens and inns; a text of about 1835 has „noi suntem toți proprietari și cu familie” “we are all owners and family men”.^[2] From the owner of a house it came to mean the landlord, as opposed to the tenants, and mare proprietar the owner of a large estate, a moșier.^[4][2] MDA2 also records an old military sense, “commander”, in the forms proprietariu and propieter.^[3] Costinescu in 1870 still explains the word with a paraphrase.^[11]

Timeline

• 1816 – the first record.^[8][2]
• 1829 – proprietariu.^[2]
• c. 1835 – proprietari “owners”.^[2]
• 1870 – Costinescu: one who has a property.^[11]
• 1886 – Barcianu glosses it with German Eigenthümer and Grundbesitzer.^[12]

Meanings

Noun

1. An owner: a person who holds the right of property over something: Proprietarul mașinii nu a fost găsit.^[4][3]
2. A landlord: a person who owns a building, seen in relation to the tenants, with mare proprietar a big landowner.^[4][3]
3. (military, dated) A commander.^[3]

Word family

• împroprietări

Related words

• proprietate

Usage notes

The feminine is proprietară.^[4][1] The word is pronounced with the vowels i and e in separate syllables, -pri-e-.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. proprietar
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 570
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. 886
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. proprietar
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. proprietar
7. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1064
8. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. proprietar
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
10. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
11. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 369
12. ^ Barcianu, Sava Popovici (1886), Dicționar român-germân și germân-român, revised by D. P. Barcianu, part I: român-germân, Sibiu: Institut tipografic, p. 513