sindicat

Forms

sindicat n (plural sindicate)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French syndicat.^[2][3][4][1] Scriban also relates it to sindic “trustee”.^[5] The French word is formed from syndic (“syndic, representative”) and the suffix -at, and is recorded from 1409.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the Curierul românesc of 1832, in the old sense “the office of a syndic”, the trustee of a bankrupt's creditors: „Spre a fi dar știută această întărire a sindicatului la toți creditorii de obște se face cunoscut” “so that this confirmation of the syndic's office be known to all the creditors, it is made public”.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

Negulici (1848) and Costinescu (1870) still define it as the office of a syndic and the time it lasts.^[6][7][4] The DLR's evidence for the sense “trade union” begins with Polizu's dictionary.^[4] Scriban's dictionary of 1939 describes sindicate as associations formed to defend the interests of a trade, including sindicate agricole.^[5] DEX 1998 still had the economic sense “monopoly union, closer than a cartel”, which DEX 2009 replaced with “syndicate”, a group that finances an investment together.^[8][3]

Timeline

• 1832 – first record, “office of a syndic”, in Curierul românesc.^[2][4]
• 1848 – in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[6]
• 1870 – in Costinescu's dictionary.^[7]
• 1939 – sindicate agricole in Scriban.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A trade union: an organisation of employees set up under the law to defend their professional, economic and social interests.^[3][2]
2. The members of a union as a whole; the union's headquarters.^[3][2]
3. A syndicate: a group of people or companies joined by contract to finance an investment.^[3]
4. (dated) A monopoly association, closer than a cartel, whose members sell their goods through a common office.^[8][2]
5. (obsolete) The office of a sindic; its term.^[2][4]

Related words

• sindic

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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, 896
3. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1021
4. ^ 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. sindicat
5. ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1203
6. ^ 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. sindicat
7. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 521
8. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic, p. 991