psiholog

Forms

psiholog m (plural psihologi, feminine equivalent psihologă)^[1] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 has the older form psicolog, and Alexi wrote it psicholog after the French spelling.^[2][3] The feminine is psihologă (Scriban and later dictionaries also give psiholoagă).^[2][4]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French psychologue (“psychologist”), one of the French neologisms of the 19th century.^{[4][5][3][2][6][1]} Within Romanian it can be analysed as psiho- with -log.^[1] Scriban traced the word to Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) and λόγος (lógos, “word”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin and MDA2 date the first record to Iordache Golescu's manuscript dictionary, the Condica limbii rumânești, of about 1832.^[3][4] The sense there is the specialist in psihologie.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The DLR gives the specialist sense first, with Golescu and Negulici among its first records, and a second sense, a keen observer of human character, with quotations from 20th-century critics and novelists, Camil Petrescu among them.^[2][8] DEX 2009 puts the observer sense first and notes that the feminine is rare in it.^[5] The DLR quotes Marin Preda distinguishing the psihiatru, a physician, from the psiholog.^[2]

Timeline

• c. 1832 – psiholog in Iordache Golescu's Condica limbii rumânești.^[3][4]
• 1848 – the form psicolog in Negulici's dictionary.^[2]
• 1893–1895 – Damé's dictionary glosses it with French psychologue.^[9]
• 1939 – Scriban gives the feminine psiholoagă.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A psychologist: a person trained in the study of psihologie.^[5][4][1]
2. A keen observer of people, able to grasp and analyse another person's inner life; a good judge of human nature.^[5][4]

Related words

• psihologie
• psihologic
• French psychologue

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. psiholog
3. ^ 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. psiholog
4. ^ 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, 586
5. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 893
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. psiholog
7. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 1071
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 615
9. ^ Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. s.v. psiholog