responsabilitate

Forms

responsabilitate f (plural responsabilități)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French responsabilité, as DEX, MDA2, the DLR and the neologism dictionaries give it.^[2][3][4][5] Tiktin and Scriban name Italian responsabilità beside the French word, and Scriban also ties it to the adjective responsabil.^[6][7] Wiktionary notes that it matches responsabil with the suffix -itate.^[1] The French noun, which matches responsable with -ité, was modelled on or borrowed from English responsibility.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is a document of 1827 printed in the Uricariul, which asks that the limits of someone's responsibility for errors be set down in writing.^[4][3][6]

Semantic evolution

In the 19th century it belonged to the language of administration and politics: the DLR quotes responsabilitatea miniștrilor “the responsibility of ministers” from a newspaper of 1858.^[4] Negulici's dictionary of 1848 defines it as the duty to answer for oneself, for another or for a thing entrusted.^[9] Costinescu in 1870 gives the legal sense, the obligation to answer for one's acts or to guarantee a thing.^[10] In the 20th century it also came to mean the post of a responsabil, the person in charge.^[4][2]

Timeline

• 1827 – in a document printed in the Uricariul, the first record.^[3][4]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary.^[9]
• 1858 – responsabilitatea miniștrilor in a newspaper.^[4]
• 1870 – the legal sense in Costinescu's dictionary.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. The obligation to do something, to answer or account for it and accept its consequences; responsibility, răspundere.^[2][1]
2. The post or task of a person in charge, a responsabil.^[2][4]

Related words

• responsabil
• răspundere
• răspunde

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 947
3. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 696
4. ^ 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. responsabilitate
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. responsabilitate
6. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. responsabilitate
7. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1120
8. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. responsabilité
9. ^ a b Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. s.v. responsabilitate
10. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 435